Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

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• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Career

• Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Friends
  • True
  • Happy

• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Reason

• One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Fall
  • Never
  • Belief

• This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Moment

• It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Death
  • Poverty

• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Awake
  • Careless
  • Racehorse

• The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Find

• Separation, suffering and evil are the absence of realizing Love, and are therefore ultimately illusions. They are also manifestations of our searching for Love, Wholeness, and Home. The evil or darkness is thus ultimately in the service of the Light.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Love
  • Evil
  • Suffering

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Good
  • God
  • Preaching

• I go in and out of the studio in sporadic periods, I don't go in there for hours on end. I'm looking for that initial vibe, be it from a beat, a sound, a loop, whatever. Nothing is planned, nothig is deliberate.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Nothing
  • Studio
  • Periods

• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Children
  • Friendship

• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Great Things
  • Great Love