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“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
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“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
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“For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then
the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love you life
too much," it said,
and vanished
into the world.”
― Dream Work
just to love my life. And then
the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love you life
too much," it said,
and vanished
into the world.”
― Dream Work
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
"The Summer Day”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
With your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
"The Summer Day”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
from "When the death comes”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
from "When the death comes”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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