“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
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Mother Teresa
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
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Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
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Mother Teresa
“If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.”
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Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
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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
“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
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
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Mother Teresa
“The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.”
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Mother Teresa
“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”
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Mother Teresa
“When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
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Mother Teresa
“There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful for God.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we worry too much about ourselves, we won't have time for others”
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Mother Teresa
