Mother Teresa Quotes
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
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It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
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There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
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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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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.
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Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
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She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
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Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.
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I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them