Mother Teresa Quotes

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

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If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

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The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

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Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

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And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

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Life is an adventure, dare it.

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If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

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The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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We have only today. Let us begin

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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

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There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

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Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

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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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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

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God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

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People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

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People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

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Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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