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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

“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.”
― Mother Teresa

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Theresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa

“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.”
― Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

“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?”
― Mother Teresa

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

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

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
― Mother Teresa

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
― Mother Teresa

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Pamela Vaull Starr

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
― Mother Teresa

“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.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
― Mother Teresa

“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.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
― Saint Teresa of Avila

“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
― Mother Teresa

“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
― Mother Teresa

“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
― Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
― Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
― Mother Teresa

“Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa