“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
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Mother Teresa
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
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Mother Teresa
“There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.”
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Mother Teresa
“Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.”
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Mother Teresa
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.”
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Mother Teresa
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
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Mother Teresa
“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
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Mother Teresa
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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Mother Teresa
“If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.”
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Mother Teresa
“In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.”
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Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
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Mother Teresa
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
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Mother Teresa
