Calcutta Quotes

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Sick, Suffering

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• You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, World, Ifs

  "Character: Mother Teresa". "Mother Teresa", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Home, School

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• Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.

  Penelope Cruz

  Grateful, People, Special

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• Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

  Tahir Shah

  Cities, Stranger, Where You Are

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Opposites, Cities

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.161, Lulu.com

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• Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, India, Hungry For Love

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Elbows

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

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  Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Birthday, Happiness

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

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• Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Eye, Said

  Shane Claiborne (2008). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.56, Zondervan

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Cities, Dysfunction, Attachment

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• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Couple, Home

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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  Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Teaching, People

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

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• India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, India, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Grandchildren, Hungry Eyes

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

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• Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

  Henry Rollins

  Numbers, Life And Death, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Mother

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• I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Peace, Prayer

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• I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Everyday, Saint

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2179, Manonmani Publishers

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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