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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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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.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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It's 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 can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
