Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

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• I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Wish
  • Politics

• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Limits
  • Inventing

• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Over
  • Japan
  • Marines

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Selfish

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Hate

• I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Alone

• Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Dog

• I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Smile

• If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • Work
  • Believe

• I've always felt like my job is to protect my sister. Even growing up, on the playground, when my sister was too shy, I would speak for her... I even had dreams where I had to save her, growing up, all the time - like, she was falling, and I had to save her.

  

  Christen Press
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Generation
  • Sixties

• The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Understanding
  • Fire
  • Abuse

• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Done
  • Rest
  • Body

• Being on the road is kind of lonely.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Road
  • Lonely

• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering
  • Sick
  • Lonely