"The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing"

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Source : Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.371, Penguin

Mary Oliver

#Life Quotes #Dream Quotes #Lying Quotes

“The next road is always ahead.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful girl who does not pretend to be something she is not. A girl who is down to earth and lets no guy define who she is.”
“Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.”
“Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.”
“Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.”
“I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.”
“People rarely die from ***** alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe.”

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