Activational Quotes
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“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves - we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“...whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I'm taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the temple.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? Would would this would be like without dogs?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“This is to say nothing against afternoons, evenings or even midnight. Each has its portion of the spectacular. But dawn — dawn is a gift. Much is revealed about a person about his or her passion, or indifference, to this opening of the door of day. No one who loves dawn, and is abroad to see it, could be a stranger to me.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I had to go away for a few days so I called the kennel and made an appointment. I guess Bear overheard the conversation. “Love and company,” said Bear, “are the adornments that change everything. I know they’ll be nice to me, but I’ll be sad, sad, sad.” And pitifully he wrung his paws. I cancelled the trip.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It’s said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I’m not talking about a vacation. Of course at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am. Are you following me?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
"Evo ti cijelog mog političkog života: volim glazbu i slikarstvo, a dobra je knjiga za mene doživljaj."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Kad netko vrši zločine, treba barem da ih vrši s užitkom; to je jedino dobro na njima i samo se time mogu donekle opravdati."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Ljubav je kao groznica: rađa se i nestaje, a da čovjekova volja pri tome nema nikakvog udjela."
Quote by -Stendhal
“From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court privately to himself, to hide!”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne