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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. -- John Travolta
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. -- Mother Teresa
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. -- Joan Rivers
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. -- Ramana Maharshi
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. -- Mother Teresa
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. -- Mother Teresa
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. -- Mother Teresa
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise. -- Mother Teresa
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. -- Charles Frazier
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage. -- Rahul Dravid
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody. -- Mother Teresa
Jesus, I don't want to be a secret keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, the unwanted girl whom You loved, redeemed and wanted. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at. -- Pema Chodron
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? -- Mother Teresa
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction. -- Henning Mankell
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies. -- Peter Hitchens
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cures. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace-a gift of god, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair. -- M. Scott Peck
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone. -- Mother Teresa
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. -- Sophocles
I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation. -- Al Yankovic
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside. -- James Herriot
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime. -- Andrew Young
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. -- Alice Miller
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. -- Caitlin Flanagan
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. -- Anne Lamott
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs. -- Salma Hayek
Many popsicles you'll find in a supermarket have a lot of unwanted sugar or preservatives, but with a few ingredients you can make healthier popsicles with any flavor you can imagine. -- Marcus Samuelsson
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. -- Scott Stapp
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. -- Henry Rollins
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change. -- Michael Specter
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam. -- Joanna Lumley
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.' -- Rachel Nichols
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society. -- William T. Vollmann
No driven man hears unwanted counsel. -- Janny Wurts
It's not easy to get rid of unwanted things. -- Miljenko Jergovic
There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor. -- James Nesbitt
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. -- Jamais Cascio
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted -- Philip Larkin
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The #"? poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. -- Mother Teresa
Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself. -- Saurabh Sharma
It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore. -- Natalie Portman
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. -- Gore Vidal
You build a wall to keep something unwanted out "¦ or to hold something precious in. -- Jodi Picoult
Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire! -- Esther Hicks
Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations, equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength. -- Raphael Zernoff
However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target. -- Daniel Kahneman
Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. -- Vanessa Diffenbaugh
America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom. -- John Fugelsang
It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world. -- Anton Chekhov
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice. -- John Darnielle
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time. -- Pema Chodron
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. -- Michael Holroyd
In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself. -- Darren Johnson
Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home. -- Christopher Bond
In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. -- Eddie Murphy
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. -- Eddie Murphy
Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away. -- Mother Teresa
I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps. -- Bill Hicks
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted! -- Louise Bogan
Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone. -- Alan Bishop
I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time. -- William Regal
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. -- Moshe Feldenkrais
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism. -- Walter Cronkite
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power. -- Cody Wilson
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. -- Eric Maisel
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them. -- Pema Chodron
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" -- Tim Burton
After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done. -- Ani San
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night. -- Stephanie March
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted -- Henry Hyde
I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change. -- Kevin Fowler
When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path -- Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez
Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?' -- David Letterman
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it's just that the idea of letting women make a decision doesn't sit well with me. -- Zach Braff
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes. -- Emmanuelle de Maupassant
To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph. -- Roger Zelazny
In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place. -- Pema Chodron
Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on. -- Michael Beckwith
'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner. -- Anna Chlumsky
Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right -- David Garrow
Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish. -- David Alan Harvey
When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces. -- Simon Bird
Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils. -- Meggie Royer
Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross) -- Sandra Brown
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? -- Rachel Carson
I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that. -- Johnny Depp
People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret. -- Nicki Chapman
Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys. -- Peggy Orenstein
Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge. -- Peggy Orenstein
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects. -- John McCain
Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books... -- Ellen Hopkins
Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop. -- Emily Yoffe
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted. -- Mother Teresa
Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago. -- Kalle Lasn
Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago. -- Kalle Lasn
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure. -- Richard Posner

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