Top 35 Mary Teresa Quotes

#1. There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#2. To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#3. Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#4. Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#5. A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention.

Mother Teresa

#6. People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#7. Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#8. Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#9. If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#10. Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#11. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#12. I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

Olivia Hussey

#13. Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#14. An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#15. There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#16. Love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#17. We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#18. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#19. A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#20. A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#21. It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#22. I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#23. Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#24. A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#25. Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#26. Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.

Mother Teresa

#27. All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#28. Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#29. All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#30. Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#31. Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#32. if we want to love Jesus completely, ardently, and perfectly - as did Mother Teresa - then we need his Spirit of Love, and Mary Immaculate brings him to us.

Michael Gaitley

#33. If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

Mother Teresa

#34. What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#35. To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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