“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.”
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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
“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
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. 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
“One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
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Mother Teresa
“Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.”
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Mother Teresa
“Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant to me, I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved you – even in your wanderings.
I know every one of your problems. I know your need and your worries. And yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you – not for what you have or haven’t done – I love you for you, for the beauty and dignity my Father gave you by creating you in his own image.”
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Mother Teresa
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
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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
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
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Mother Teresa
“She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.”
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Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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Mother Teresa
