Calcutta Quotes
The best sayings about Calcutta that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
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Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
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If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.
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You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.
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In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
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Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
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You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
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We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi.
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In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.
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Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
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