Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India – I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
Quotes to Explore
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.
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Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
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The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India – I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
