“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.”
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Mother Teresa
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...”
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Mother Teresa
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
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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
“Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.”
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Mother Teresa
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Others come in our life as lessons.”
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Mother Teresa
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
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Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
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Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
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Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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Mother Teresa
