Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.
