“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
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Mother Teresa
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”
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Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
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Mother Teresa
“Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow Him to possess our soul
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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
“It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
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Mother Teresa
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
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Mother Teresa
“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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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
“If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
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Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
