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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When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver

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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com

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Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. – Stephen Dunn

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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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