“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. 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
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
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Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
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Mother Teresa
“If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.”
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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
“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 judge people, you don't have time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
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Mother Teresa
