Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."
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Great Love
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Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Love hard when there is love to be had."
Scarlett Johansson
Actress
"I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Small things done with great love will change the world."
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"Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love."
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"True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all."
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"Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship."
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"Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set."
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"Great loves too must be endured."
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"The fact that I loved Jesus was beginning to interfere with the plans I once had for my life and certainly with the plans others had for me. My heart had been apprehended by a great love, a love that compelled me to live differently."
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"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."
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"Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all."
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"I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'"
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"There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it."
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"One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
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"I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object."
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
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"I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre."
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"How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be."
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"Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube."
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"Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love."
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"Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness."
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"There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love"
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"It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa"
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