Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

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• Accept loss forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

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• I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

  

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• I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

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• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

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• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

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• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

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• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

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• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

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• I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

  

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• My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

  

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• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  

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• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

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• I have good memories of Bangalore.

  

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• When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.

  

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• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  

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  • Stress
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• I take my title from the name the Jews have traditionally given the Roman Empire. You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows - pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being uncircumcised.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

  

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  • Work
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• It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

  

  Mother Teresa
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  • Love