Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Mother Teresa

• Mean
• Suffering
• Forget
• Concerned
• Intimate
• Unloved

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• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Important
  • Forget

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Suffering
  • Sea
  • Picnic

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Father
  • Me
  • Mean

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Free
  • Purpose

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Think
  • Suffering

• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Hate
  • Door
  • Forget

• I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Concerned
  • Else

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Suffering

• I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Feel
  • Forget

• For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Author

• When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

  

  Marcia Angell
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Dying

• I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Why
  • Suffering

• Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Desire
  • Blood
  • Nightmare

• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mean
  • Suffering
  • Forget