Mother Teresa

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Peace begins with a smile.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

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?

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

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

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.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. 

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.

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

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

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

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

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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

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

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

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."

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

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

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

Love begins at home and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence, see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.

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.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So spread your love everywhere you go.

If you 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.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'nothing' for you.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

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.

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.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

My secret is simple - I pray.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

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.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

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.

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.

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.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

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

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

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.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

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.

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.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared, for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.