Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don’t we? Slowly — Mary Oliver

Listen, whatever you see and love–that’s where you are. — Mary Oliver

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. — Mary Oliver

Mary having co–operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession. — Alphonsus Liguori

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary. — Alphonsus Liguori

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle. — Josemaria Escriva

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? — Mary Oliver

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust. — Mary Oliver

You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. — Mary Oliver

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It’s impossible not to remember wild an want it back. — Mary Oliver

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. — Mary Oliver

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. — Mary Oliver

Three THINGS TO REMEMBER As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules. — Mary Oliver

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself. — Mary Oliver

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. — Mary Oliver

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. — Mary Oliver

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier? — Mary Oliver

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. — Mary Oliver

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included. — Mary Oliver

It is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. — Mary Oliver

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her. — Saint Augustine

The much–quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women. — Jose Saramago

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird–equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums… — Mary Oliver

Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father. — Ernest Angley

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother. — Maximilian Kolbe

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan. — Pope Francis

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. — Therese Of Lisieux

When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary. — Olympia Dukakis

O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity. — Saint Basil

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary. — Ildefonsus

If you ever feel distressed during your day–call upon our Lady–just say this simple prayer: ‘Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.’ I must admit–this prayer has never failed me. — Mother Teresa

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire. — Mary Oliver

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. — Mary Oliver

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self–attendance. A condition I can’t really call being alive. — Mary Oliver

All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don’t give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul. — Josemaria Escriva