Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
Quotes to Explore
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
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The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.
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I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
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I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
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Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
