Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Mother Teresa

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• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!

  

  Anna Sui
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• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

  

  Mason Cooley

• The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

  

  Lionel Jospin

• I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

  

  Paula Poundstone
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  • Time
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• If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

  

  Alexis Stewart
  • Up
  • Gun

• The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

  

  Betty Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • Soul

• One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Feeling
  • Peace
  • Compassion

• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Citizens

• God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • God
  • Means
  • Plans

• I am thinking, therefore I exist. I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require any place, or depend on any material thing, in order to exist. Accordingly this 'I' - that is, the soul by which I am what I am - is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Exist

• I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Energy
  • Hands
  • Guitar

• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  

  Michael Greger
  • Ability
  • Healthy
  • Research

• People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Criticism

• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Love Of God

• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Surrender
  • God's Will
  • Love Of God

• The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Soul
  • Love Of God
  • Described

• I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Love Of God
  • Comprehend
  • Niagara

• I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love Of God