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Mother Teresa

(1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary


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A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in an ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.