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10 Mary Oliver Quotes That Will Make You Question Your Way Of Life

Rest in peace Mary Oliver.

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There are very few people whose words cut through your heart and hit the right chords. Amidst the clutter in the name of "micro-poetry" found evasively on the internet these days, here are some gem of quotes that can potentially teach us how to actually live our lives.

1. This is a deserving first and most favorite!

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

2. Because each moment is a new story

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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

3. Many of us are, aren't we?

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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

4. For the days we forget to appreciate this beautiful life of ours

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It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.

5. If perfection had a face, it would be her.

Susan Oliver (1971)

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"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief."

6. Could it get more real?!

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I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

7. Do you?

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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

8. Keep on going...

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Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

9. TRUTH.

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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

10. We love you!

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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

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