Quote by Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to lov

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver

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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

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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

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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

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Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. – Barbara Johnson

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Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. – Edward Steichen

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Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. – Morihei Ueshiba

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