Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa Quotes

Peace begins with a smile..

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

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

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. 
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. 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. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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

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

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

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

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.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Live simply so others may simply live.

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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