Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I don't read books.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.
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If you're good at something, never do it for free.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
