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Quote by Mary Oliver
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. - Mary

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – 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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amazing
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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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Happiness
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Mary Oliver
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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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Wise Words
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Mary Oliver
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Beauty
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I dont care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. – Emile Zola

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Beauty

Beauty has a lot to do with character. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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Beauty

Theres no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. Its beautiful, I call that beauty. – Celine Dion

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Beauty

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. – Archibald Wavell

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader

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Theres a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater… Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell. – Kim Cattrall

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Experience