The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
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AUM, the most primordial human sound -
and the sound most connected to Spirit,
is pronounced in these three parts:
A (as in mama) - a throat sound
that vibrates in the abdomen - signifies waking.
U (as in who) - a tongue sound
that vibrates in the chest - signifies dreaming.
M (as in mama) - a lip sound
that vibrates in the head - signifies sleeping.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
For it was not into my ear you whispered,
but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed,
but my soul.
- Judy Garland
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
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
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If we 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
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
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
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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