“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
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Mother Teresa
“There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.”
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Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
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Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
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Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is so easy to be proud, harsh, moody and selfish, but we have been created for greater things. Why stoop down to things that will spoil the beauty of our hearts?”
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Mother Teresa
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”
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Mother Teresa
“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.”
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Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
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Mother Teresa
