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Those who are resilient can more quickly regain their equilibrium and spring back when they are thrown off kilter by the storms of life.


Mary Buchan

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MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER