Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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The law is cruel.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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Walk on.
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FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass.
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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
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Every reader his or her book.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
