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

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

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

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We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. – Laurence Binyon

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Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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