Calcutta Quotes - Page 3

• The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Thoughtful, May

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• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Heart, Hunger For Love

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

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

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

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

  Tom Paxton

  Song, School, Speak English

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• You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Children

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• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Notebook, Growing Up, Couple

  "Corporate Reform Updates and a Conversation with the FCC Commissioner". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 2, 2003.

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• Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Religious, Faithful, Littles

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• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Love Is, Slavery

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• Live simply so others may simply live.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Helping Others, Simply Happy

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• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Environmental, Use

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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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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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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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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• You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Country, Iowa, Cities

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Wise, Peace

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