"We all have a hungry heart, and..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
More by Mary Oliver
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”
“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”
More on Happiness
“It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.”
“The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.”
“If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.”