Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Together
  • Innovation

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• I get to meet different directors and different people.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • People
  • Different
  • Meet

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Kindness

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Life
  • Music
  • Children

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Reality
  • Small

• I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Letters
  • Acknowledgments

• One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Giving
  • Joy
  • Asks