Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Past

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • May
  • Joy

• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Past
  • You
  • Because

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• I've tried several diets over the past couple of years – not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Need
  • Lose
  • Weight

• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Past

• It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • She
  • History

• Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart
  • Joy

• Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Past

• Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Joy
  • Cause
  • Dwelling

• There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Responsibility

• I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

  

  Anson Mount
  • Enemy

• Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wonder
  • Persons
  • Nobility

• Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Past
  • Joy