Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.
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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
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If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
