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Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane

by Lindy West

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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-lessons

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“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry

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“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: inspirational

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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: attention, life, poetry, work

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“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver

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