Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
Mother Teresa
Quotes to Explore
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.
Kanye West
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Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.
Walter Bagehot
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Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.
Warren Farrell
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I could feel the golden handcuffs of a comfortable but unfulfilling life snapping shut on my wrists.
Clarence Thomas
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And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic. Before she got too old she must wrest some part of her life for herself, or she would fade, vanish, before anyone noticed her disappearance
Anita Brookner
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To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
Andy Garcia
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
Francis Bacon
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
Marianne Faithfull
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What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.
Mike Farrell
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Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
Mother Teresa
