Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.
Quotes to Explore
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.
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I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
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At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.
