Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

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• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Identity

• I love symphonies. I love string sections.

  

  Glen Campbell

• Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Reading

• Hope is a pocket of possibility.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Hope
  • Hands
  • Possibility

• People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Discover

• Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Giving
  • Floor
  • Ceiling

• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Art
  • Suffering
  • Learn

• The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Communities
  • Account
  • Diagnosis

• I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Time
  • Family
  • Spend

• Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Stupid
  • Sound
  • Entrepreneurial

• My films, no one else will do.

  

  Mira Nair
  • Films
  • Else

• The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Attitude
  • Tomorrow
  • Newspapers

• And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Educate
  • Purposes
  • Employment

• I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Person
  • Spiritually

• I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

  

  Win Butler

• Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Illogical
  • I Can't

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• A lot of drummers, obviously they want to show off and do all these fills and everything, but the main objective is to play for the song.

  

  John Tempesta The Cult
  • Song
  • Play
  • Drummers

• I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Death
  • Beliefs
  • Religions

• People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Centered
  • Unrealistic
  • Illogical