Mother Teresa

Country India
Born Saturday, 27 August 1910
Category Social Activists
Quotes 306
Mother Teresa, a legend in her own life time who devoted her life to loving and caring of those persons to whom nobody was prepared to look after. She set up The Missionaries of Charity, Nirmal Hriday, home for lepers, orphans and abandoned children. The work of Mother Teresa is spread all over the world today.
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“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.” Uncategorized
“Why can't there be love that never gets tired?” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.” Uncategorized
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” Uncategorized
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.” Uncategorized
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” Uncategorized
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.” Uncategorized
“If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.” Uncategorized
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” Uncategorized
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” Uncategorized
“People are often unreasonable, illogical 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 false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.” Uncategorized
“As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.” Uncategorized
“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.” Uncategorized