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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time -- just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin -- one, one, one.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -- that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
We can do no great things -- only small things with great love.
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, and the lonely right there where you are -- in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society -- completely forgotten, completely left alone.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
A smile is the beginning of peace.
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. 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, kindness in your warm greeting.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.