Mary Oliver Quotes

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Love takes a lot of work.

Caring is tough.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

What I like is the journey, the year-round struggle to improve.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

There's no secret it's hard work. Even though Brian's the love of my life, and he's absolutely adorable, it's not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

I'm 18 so I'm still young and I'm still learning. But I mean, relationships in general are hard.