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.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
-
William Shakespeare
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
-
Maya Angelou
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
-
Maya Angelou
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then...
-
Thomas Merton
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
-
Doris Lessing
More Quotes By Mary Oliver
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, themiserable and the crotchety — best preacher that ever...
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and...
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
