“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
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Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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Mother Teresa
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
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Mother Teresa
“I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for the love of God. You must give what costs you, go without something you like, then you will truly be brothers to the poor who are deprived of even the things they need.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”
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Mother Teresa
“The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.”
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Mother Teresa
“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”
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Mother Teresa
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
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Mother Teresa
“I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”
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Mother Teresa
“Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.”
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Mother Teresa
“She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
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Mother Teresa
