Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.
Denis de Rougemont
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Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
Napoleon Hill
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
Jasper Fforde
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.
George Eliot
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It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
