Quotes
Authors
Mary Oliver

"I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving."

-- Mary Oliver

#Dog Quotes #Flower Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.”

Source : "Singer Lou Rawls dies of cancer at 72" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 7, 2006.
“The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14
“What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.”
“It isnâ€™t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.”
“It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.”
“That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.”
“If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.”
“People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.”

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