Calcutta Quotes - Page 4

• When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

  Mother Teresa

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• Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

  Donald Wuerl

  Mother, Saint, Use

  "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Believe, Praying

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• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  Vijender Singh

  Winning, Boxing, Juniors

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love Is, Slavery

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• Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Smile

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• Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, World

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• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Spiritual

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• In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Finals, Analysis, Be Kind

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• It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

  Mother Teresa

  Soulmate, Inspiration, Charity

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• History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

  Yukio Mishima

  Blood, Humanity, Kali

  Yukio Mishima (1974). “The Decay of the Angel”, Random House

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• Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Links, Good Work

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• The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Television, Penance

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• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
  Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Loving Mother, Results

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

  Henry Rollins

  Nice, America, Body

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Country, West, Knows

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  People, May, Be Kind

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Easy, Far Away

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• Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Our Love, Easy Love

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