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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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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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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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
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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.
