“every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”
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Mother Teresa
“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving.
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Mother Teresa
“People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don’t see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“We have a great deal of worth in the eyes of God. I never tire of saying over and over again that God loves us. It is a wonderful thing that God Himself loves me tenderly. That is why we should have courage, joy, and the conviction that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.”
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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
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”
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Mother Teresa
“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
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Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
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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
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
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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
