Quotes by Mother Teresa

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Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, the lonely right where you are - in your own house, your own family, your home, your workplace and schools! If you look around carefully, you can find a Calcutta everywhere in the world! Everywhere you go, you will find people who are outcasts, who are not loved, who are not cared for, who are rejected by society - and who live completely forgotten, completely left alone.

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I came across a paradox: if you love until it hurts, then there is no pain left, only love.

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Life is a game, play it. Life is too precious, don't ruin it.

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The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service.

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Never let someone not be happier after meeting you than before!

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The greatest disease in our world today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling that no one needs us, no one cares about us, and that we are abandoned by everyone.

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We feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean. However, without the drop, the sea would be shallower.

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Life is a promise - fulfill it!

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There are medicines for physical ailments, but only love can cure loneliness, despair and hopelessness. There are many people in the world who are hungry for a piece of bread, but there are even more people who are only hungry for a little love.

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People need your help, but if you help, you might get attacked, help anyway! Give the world the best you have, and if you get beaten in return, give the world the best you have!

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Not everyone is capable of great things. But any of us can do small things with great love.

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Love is a fruit that is always in season and available to everyone.

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Smile at each other, at your husband, your wife, your children, without discrimination at all your fellow human beings - and this will help you develop your love for each other.

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I'm not sure what it will be like in heaven, but I know one thing for sure. When we die and the time comes for the Lord to judge us, he will not ask: how much good we did in our life, but how much love we did.

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Suffering, if accepted together, if borne together, is joy.

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Life is a challenge. Accept it!

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Loneliness and the feeling of being useless are the worst forms of poverty.

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The greatest poverty is the decision when you decide that a child must die so that you can live the way you want.

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If everyone cleaned their own door, the whole world would be clean.

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What matters is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

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Silence is faith when you wait calmly because you know that the Lord will act, when you renounce the world to be with the Lord, when you do not care about being understood because it is enough for you that the Lord understands, silence is faith.

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Be faithful in the little things, because in them lies your strength.

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Life is a beauty, admire it!

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Life is your only chance, take it seriously!

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Peace begins with a smile.

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If we do not have peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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We all have one life! Why do we make it difficult for each other?

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If sometimes our poor die of hunger, it is not because God did not take care of them, but because you and I did not give, because we were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, because we did not recognize Him, Christ, when He came again in a ragged disguise to the abandoned in man.

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Kind words may be short and easy to say, but their resonance is endless.