"Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist."

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Mary Oliver

#Believe Quotes #Mountain Quotes #World Quotes

“Happy people are rarely interesting.”
“It's only too late if you don't start now.”
“Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.”
“Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesnâ€™t mean that theyâ€™ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesnâ€™t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.”
“No one is ever ordinary.”
“You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.”
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
“I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong”

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