Best quotes by Mary Oliver on Life

Checkout quotes by Mary Oliver on Life

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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• ‟ When it's 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.

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• ‟ Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

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• ‟ I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

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• ‟ Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

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• ‟ Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

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• ‟ There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

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• ‟ Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

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• ‟ Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

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• ‟ I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

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• ‟ I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

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• ‟ I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

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• ‟ I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

  - Mary Oliver