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1. Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
2. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa
3. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
4. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
5. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
6. 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
7. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
8. 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
9. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
- Mother Teresa
10. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
11. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
12. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
13. 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.
- Mother Teresa
14. 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
15. Live simply so others may simply live.
- Mother Teresa
16. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
- Mother Teresa
17. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
18. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
19. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
- Mother Teresa
20. 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
21. A life not lived for others is not a life.
- Mother Teresa
22. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
23. The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
24. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
- Mother Teresa
25. 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
26. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
- Mother Teresa
27. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
28. Love to be real, it must cost it must hurt it must empty us of self.
- Mother Teresa
29. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
- Mother Teresa
30. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
31. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
- Mother Teresa
32. If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
33. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
34. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
- Mother Teresa
35. 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.
- Mother Teresa
36. Work without love is slavery.
- Mother Teresa
37. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa
38. Give, but give until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
39. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
- Mother Teresa
40. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
- Mother Teresa
41. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
- Mother Teresa
42. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
- Mother Teresa
43. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
- Mother Teresa
44. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
45. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
- Mother Teresa
46. 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
47. Life is a game, play it.
- Mother Teresa
48. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
49. How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
- Mother Teresa
50. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
- Mother Teresa
51. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
52. When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
- Mother Teresa
53. 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.
- Mother Teresa
54. 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 to grow up in greater love for each other.
- Mother Teresa
55. Never be so busy as not to think of others.
- Mother Teresa
56. 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.
- Mother Teresa
57. Intense love does not measure it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
58. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
- Mother Teresa
59. Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
60. I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
- Mother Teresa
61. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
- Mother Teresa
62. Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
- Mother Teresa
63. Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
- Mother Teresa
64. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
65. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
66. 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.
- Mother Teresa
67. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
- Mother Teresa
68. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
- Mother Teresa
69. Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
- Mother Teresa
70. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
- Mother Teresa
71. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
- Mother Teresa
72. There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
- Mother Teresa
73. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
74. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
75. 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
76. In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
77. When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
- Mother Teresa
78. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
- Mother Teresa
79. I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
80. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
- Mother Teresa
81. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
82. I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
- Mother Teresa
83. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
- Mother Teresa
84. 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.
- Mother Teresa
85. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
- Mother Teresa
86. If I look at the mass I will never act.
- Mother Teresa
87. 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.
- Mother Teresa
88. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
89. 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.
- Mother Teresa
90. 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.
- Mother Teresa
91. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
92. God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
- Mother Teresa
93. It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa
94. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
95. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
96. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
97. Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
- Mother Teresa
98. We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
99. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
100. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.
- Mother Teresa
101. 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.
- Mother Teresa
102. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Mother Teresa
103. Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
- Mother Teresa
104. 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.
- Mother Teresa
105. I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
- Mother Teresa
106. 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.
- Mother Teresa
107. I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
108. 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
109. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
- Mother Teresa
110. When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
- Mother Teresa
Born: 26 August 1910,
Skopje, North Macedonia.
Died: 5 September 1997,
Kolkata.
1. Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
2. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa
3. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
4. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
5. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
6. 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
7. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
8. 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
9. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
- Mother Teresa
10. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
11. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
12. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
13. 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.
- Mother Teresa
14. 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
15. Live simply so others may simply live.
- Mother Teresa
16. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
- Mother Teresa
17. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
18. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
19. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
- Mother Teresa
20. 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
21. A life not lived for others is not a life.
- Mother Teresa
22. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
23. The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
24. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
- Mother Teresa
25. 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
26. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
- Mother Teresa
27. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
28. Love to be real, it must cost it must hurt it must empty us of self.
- Mother Teresa
29. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
- Mother Teresa
30. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
31. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
- Mother Teresa
32. If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
33. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
34. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
- Mother Teresa
35. 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.
- Mother Teresa
36. Work without love is slavery.
- Mother Teresa
37. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa
38. Give, but give until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
39. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
- Mother Teresa
40. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
- Mother Teresa
41. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
- Mother Teresa
42. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
- Mother Teresa
43. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
- Mother Teresa
44. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
45. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
- Mother Teresa
46. 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
47. Life is a game, play it.
- Mother Teresa
48. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
49. How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
- Mother Teresa
50. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
- Mother Teresa
51. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
52. When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
- Mother Teresa
53. 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.
- Mother Teresa
54. 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 to grow up in greater love for each other.
- Mother Teresa
55. Never be so busy as not to think of others.
- Mother Teresa
56. 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.
- Mother Teresa
57. Intense love does not measure it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
58. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
- Mother Teresa
59. Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
60. I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
- Mother Teresa
61. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
- Mother Teresa
62. Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
- Mother Teresa
63. Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
- Mother Teresa
64. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
65. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
66. 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.
- Mother Teresa
67. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
- Mother Teresa
68. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
- Mother Teresa
69. Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
- Mother Teresa
70. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
- Mother Teresa
71. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
- Mother Teresa
72. There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
- Mother Teresa
73. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
74. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
75. 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
76. In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
77. When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
- Mother Teresa
78. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
- Mother Teresa
79. I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
80. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
- Mother Teresa
81. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
82. I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
- Mother Teresa
83. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
- Mother Teresa
84. 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.
- Mother Teresa
85. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
- Mother Teresa
86. If I look at the mass I will never act.
- Mother Teresa
87. 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.
- Mother Teresa
88. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
89. 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.
- Mother Teresa
90. 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.
- Mother Teresa
91. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
92. God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
- Mother Teresa
93. It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa
94. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
95. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
96. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
97. Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
- Mother Teresa
98. We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
99. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
100. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.
- Mother Teresa
101. 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.
- Mother Teresa
102. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Mother Teresa
103. Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
- Mother Teresa
104. 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.
- Mother Teresa
105. I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
- Mother Teresa
106. 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.
- Mother Teresa
107. I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
108. 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
109. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
- Mother Teresa
110. When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
- Mother Teresa
