Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I love Chicago.
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I love a woman who can out-eat me.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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Passion with another cannot sustain a relationship. Passion exists in the moment, and this moment passes into a memory. In order to sustain a relationship, you must be passionately alive. As a result, you will continue to bring your passion to the one you love. You will not need it to come from another, because you will be sharing your abounding supply from within you.
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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
