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“Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

— Michael E. Gerber

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Michael E. Gerber Quote: “Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

“Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

— Michael E. Gerber

Michael E. Gerber Quote: “Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

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1. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

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2. “Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver

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3. “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

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4. “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

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5. “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

— Mary Oliver

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6. “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

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7. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

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8. “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

— Mary Oliver

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9. “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

— Mary Oliver

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10. “We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.”

— Mary Oliver

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11. “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

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12. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

— Mary Oliver

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13. “And I say to my heart: rave on.”

— Mary Oliver

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14. “I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

— Mary Oliver

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15. “I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.”

— Mary Oliver

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16. “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

— Mary Oliver

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17. “Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”

— Mary Oliver

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18. “All eternity is in the moment.”

— Mary Oliver

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19. “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.”

— Mary Oliver

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20. “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.”

— Mary Oliver

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21. “There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”

— Mary Oliver

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

— Mary Oliver

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23. “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

— Mary Oliver

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24. “Things take the time they take. don’t worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”

— Mary Oliver

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25. “My work is loving the world.”

— Mary Oliver

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26. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began...”

— Mary Oliver

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27. “Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”

— Mary Oliver

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28. “I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

— Mary Oliver

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29. “For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

— Mary Oliver

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30. “Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.”

— Mary Oliver

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31. “Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”

— Mary Oliver

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32. “Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”

— Mary Oliver

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33. “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination...”

— Mary Oliver

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34. “It’s morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.”

— Mary Oliver

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35. “It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”

— Mary Oliver

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36. “Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

— Mary Oliver

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37. “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.”

— Mary Oliver

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38. “You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”

— Mary Oliver

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39. “I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”

— Mary Oliver

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40. “Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it.”

— Mary Oliver

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41. “Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.”

— Mary Oliver

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42. “Don’t we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.”

— Mary Oliver

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43. “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

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44. “Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?”

— Mary Oliver

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45. “We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”

— Mary Oliver

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46. “Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”

— Mary Oliver

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47. “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.”

— Mary Oliver

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48. “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”

— Mary Oliver

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49. “Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.”

— Mary Oliver

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50. “I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

— Mary Oliver

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