“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.”
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Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
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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
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love...”
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Mother Teresa
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
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Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
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Mother Teresa
“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.”
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Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.”
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Mother Teresa
“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
