Mary Oliver Quotes

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

Mary Oliver

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Start
  • Explore

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Sustainability

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Busy

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fight

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Self

• There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Story
  • Inside

• I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • World
  • Feeling