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Mary Oliver Quotes: I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
         

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.


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I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.



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



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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.



Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.



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.

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.



In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.



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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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