Quotes of Mary Oliver

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The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) 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

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“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it ”

- Vineet Raj Kapoor

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Warm someone's cheek Whisper Caress Kiss for 10 seconds, or more, or for the rest of your life Be there Love Long Belong Be loyal Be love Be with someone always Belong to yourself ”

- David C. Sarnacki

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown