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 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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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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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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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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I'm very close with my friends. If someone was to ever come along and be the right person, they would have to get along with my friends.
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I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
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He came to visit and told me, ‘Chuck, you have to pray and you have to ask for the acceptance of God’s will in your life’, … I fell asleep in the middle of a horrific withdrawal… But there is no sleep really because your body is just aching, it’s electric… [But] when I woke up, the obsession was gone. And I knew God had helped me. Chuck Negron performing today. (Courtesy of Chuck Negron) I believe God came and did for me what I couldn’t do for myself and relieved me from the bondage of addiction… I knew God had helped me. From that time on my faith grew stronger and stronger. It changed my life.
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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.
