"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention...." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing”

“I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.”

“At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?”

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.”

“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”

“If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?”

“It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.”

“I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.”

“Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy presentthoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.”