Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. She was born 26 August 1910 and died 5 September 1997, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity. Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016. ( from Wikipedia)
MORE MOTHER TERESA QUOTES
“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” -Mother Teresa
“ Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” -Mother Teresa
“No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it’s beautiful to bring a smile into someone’s life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?” -Mother Teresa
“ I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” -Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa
“Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.” – Mother Teresa
“ Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.” – Mother Teresa
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – 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.” – Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” – Mother Teresa
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. “- Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” – Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
“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…. ”- Mother Teresa
“If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway.” – Mother Teresa
“People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.” – Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
“I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.” – Mother Teresa
“People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.” – Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” – Mother Teresa
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
“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.” – Mother Teresa
“Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.” – Mother Teresa
“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.” – Mother Teresa
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.” – 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.” – Mother Teresa
“You are greater than you know.” – Mother Teresa
“ If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”- Mother Teresa
“The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.” – Mother Teresa
“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.” – Mother Teresa
“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.”- Mother Teresa
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity.” – Mother Teresa
“Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.” – Mother Teresa
“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” – Mother Teresa
“If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.” – Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – 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.” – Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. ” – Mother Teresa
“Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.” – Mother Teresa
“ I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things. ”- Mother Teresa
“ If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”-Mother Teresa
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa
“Idon’t do great things. I do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.” – Mother Teresa
“God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.” – Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.” – Mother Teresa
“Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.” – Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your 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.” – Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”- Mother Teresa
“ Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
