Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Batman

• I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Season

• I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Take
  • Resistance

• And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Courage

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Aesthetic

• Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • She
  • Age

• Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Strong

• I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • May
  • Fear

• The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American

• Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Life
  • School
  • Power

• I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

  

  Enoch Powell

• My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Lost
  • Games
  • Excuses

• Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Today
  • Resources
  • Get Better

• Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • She
  • Man

• Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Jesus
  • Prayer
  • Meditation

• Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer
  • Union