“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
“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”
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Mother Teresa
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
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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
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
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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
“At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing.”
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Mother Teresa
“I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa
“love only variously everyday
The meaning of love”
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Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
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Mother Teresa
“You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”
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Mother Teresa