Maria Theresa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.
-- Maria Theresa

#Compassion #Wish #Earth
I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.
-- Maria Theresa

#Sleep #Wish #Last Words
Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.
-- Maria Theresa

#Men #Names #Race
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed.
-- Maria Theresa

#Battle #Lucky #Austria
I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.
-- Maria Theresa

#Army #Waiting #Credit

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Maria Theresa famous quotes

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