Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

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• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
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• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • King
  • Talking
  • Bias

• Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Time
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• Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

  

  Erykah Badu
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• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Legs

• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

  Van Jones
  • Together
  • Future
  • Winning

• The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Problem
  • Communication
  • Message

• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Long
  • Sex

• There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

  

  Ze Frank

• A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Littles

• My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Movies
  • Leave
  • Affected

• Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Constitution
  • Democratic
  • Soviet

• Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mean
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• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Great
  • Present
  • Study

• Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Peace

• The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sacrifice
  • Image
  • Charkha

• It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Forgiving
  • Forgiven