"Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective."

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Source : Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.67, Beacon Press

Mary Oliver

#World Quotes #Walks Quotes

“I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.”
“You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”
“The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.”
“To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.”
“The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is”
“It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of Christendom, and chiefly of the American states, must settle this problem, as yet new in the history of the world, abundant, as it has been, in experiments in the theory of government.”
“If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.”

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