“She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.”
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Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”
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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
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them...”
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Mother Teresa
“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.”
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Mother Teresa
“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
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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
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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Mother Teresa
“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”
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Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
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Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is so easy to be proud, harsh, moody and selfish, but we have been created for greater things. Why stoop down to things that will spoil the beauty of our hearts?”
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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