"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work."

-- Mother Teresa

#Positive Quotes #Matter Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Smiles come best from those who weep.”
“I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?”
“I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.”
“Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?”
“Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.”

Source : Archilochos, “To His Soul”
“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.”
“Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.”

Source : "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.
“The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.”

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