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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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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I always have stress.
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It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
