Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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• France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

  

  Sally Field
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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

  

  Karan Johar
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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  

  Jack Dempsey
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• How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
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• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  

  Haniel Long
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• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.

  

  Abdus Salam
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• No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.

  

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• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  

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• I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

  

  Hal Linden
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• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
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• These guys can sweep somebody with these three pitchers.

  

  Don Sutton
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• Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

  

  Mother Teresa
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