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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

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

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Breathing
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Mary Oliver
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Its very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I cant wait until morning – itll be gone. – Mary Oliver

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Morning
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Mary Oliver
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. – George H. Mead

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Beauty

In art economy is always beauty. – Henry James

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Beauty

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty

Of lifes two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborers hand. – Khalil Gibran

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Beauty

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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. – Maurice Strong

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environmental

One would think that a scissors and pastepot collection like this would require little help. Not true. A tribe of hunters and gatherers is required: there is so much to be seen for so little selected. – Robert Irvine Fitzhenry (1918–2008), The Harper Book of Quotations

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