Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
"Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness. - Mary Oliver
To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again. - Mary Oliver
A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes. - Mary Oliver
Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it. - Mary Oliver
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
It's not a competition, it's a doorway. - Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own - Mary Oliver
I feel the terror of idleness,like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea. - Mary Oliver
I know many lives worth living. - Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. - Mary Oliver
Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it. - kurbhatt
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. - Maxwell Maltz
Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? - Mary Oliver
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. - Mary O'Hara
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. - Mary Oliver
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. - Mary Oliver
That God had a plan, I do not doubt.But what if His plan was, that we would do better? - Mary Oliver
It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? - George Washington
Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe evento float a littleabove this difficult world. - Mary Oliver