Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
Quotes to Explore
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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Love is meant to lift you up, not hold you down.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
