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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willin

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – 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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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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Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. – Krishnamacharya

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Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. – William E. Simon

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To live is not breathing it is action. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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