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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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'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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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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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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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
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Cop couldn't find his dick, two hands and a map.
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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
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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.
