Mary Teresa Poole Quotes & Sayings

Someone said: ""Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"
or "tell me who is your friend and I'll tell you who you are" ... etc..
My life experience oppose the above mentioned sayings.
I would say, "Tell me how do you respond to gossip and I will tell you who you are"
"Tell me how do you solve your problems and I'll tell you who you are — Mahsati Abdul

Don't be too eager to rid yourself of your burdens. Your burdens are what shape you. — J. Scott Savage

Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple. — Tony Curl

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. — Wallace Stevens

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. — Richard Brookhiser

Wood feeds the fire which burns it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Of course I care. You're my big sister. I may act like a pain in the butt sometimes, but I actually like you. Pissing you off is just a hobby with me. [pp. 109] — Shari Maurer

When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the line, his ears picks the slightest sound of the rod, his heart beats in harmony with the waves and his mind plans further than you think — Sameh Elsayed

It is difficult to live without judging others. If you have to judge, then judge with love. — Debasish Mridha

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution. — Carl Sandburg

It was never about you not being what I wanted. It was me not knowing that what I had was everything I needed. — Corinne Michaels