Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Quotes to Explore
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
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You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.
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Nobody plans on playing their own songs in front of thousands of people.
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You don't miss what you never had.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.
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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
