Logo
Quote by Mary Oliver
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

Other quotes by Mary Oliver

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

Category:
Breathing
Author
Mary Oliver
Read Quote

Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

Category:
Poetry
Author
Mary Oliver
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. – Jeremy Collier

Category:
Happiness

By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try? – Alastair Campbell

Category:
Happiness

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. – Bar Refaeli

Category:
Happiness

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. – Herman Hesse

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us. – Janet Jackson

Category:
best

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. – Howard Nemerov

Category:
funny

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

Category:
Beauty

Dont trust somebody that dont have a troubled period. – Benjamin Walker

Category:
Trust