Mary Oliver Quotes

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

I think people need a little light and a little happiness in their lives.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.

If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it's a win.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

You gotta be happy when you wake up in the morning and look at what's next to ya. You wanna just hop on it again. That's how I feel. That's what life is about. Because when you leave the house, it's all misery anyway.