Mother Teresa Quotes : Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa about life
Here are some inspiring quotes by Mother Teresa, which will inspire you more and more to believe in love as well as yourself.
“ Intense love does not measure, it just gives. ”
“ Peace begins with a smile.. ”
“ Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ”
“ Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician. ”
“ There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ”
“ We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ”
“ Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. ”
“ Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. ”
“ Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ”
“ The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ”
“ If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ”
“ Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. ”
“ If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ”
“ What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ”
“ Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary. ”
“ Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ”
“ If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ”
“ Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ”
“ Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ”
“ Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. ”
“ Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. ”
“ Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. ”
“ I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ”
“ Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls. ”
“ God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. ”
“ It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. ”
“ Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. ”
“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”
“ We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. ”
“ Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. ”
“ Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. ”
“ We fear the future because we are wasting today. ”
“ 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? ”
“ If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. ”
“ I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ”
“ The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ”
“ Live simply so others may simply live. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. ”
“ I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. ”
“ I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. ”
“A life not lived for others is not a life. ”
“ It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. ”
“ Work without love is slavery. ”
“ 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. ”
“ I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. ”
“ Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. ”
“ Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ”
“ 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. ”
“ The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. ”
“ Good works are links that form a chain of love. ”
“ Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. ”
“ Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. ”
“ Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. ”
“ I think I’m more difficult than critical. ”
“ I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? ”
“ It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. ”
“ It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ”
“ One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ”
“ Please choose the way of peace. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. ”
“ When you don’t have anything, then you have everything. ”
“ I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ”
“ If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. ”
“ Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. ”
“ It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. ”
“ Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world. ”
“ If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. ”
“ What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. ”
“ If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ”
“ The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. ”
“ If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. ”
“ There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. ”
“ If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others. ”
“ The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love. ”
“ Together we can do great things. ”
“ I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience. ”
“ The fruit of faith is love, and the fruit of love is service…spread love everywhere u go.. ”
“ The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family. ”
“ Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. ”
“ We are not called to be successful, but faithful. ”
“ Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. ”
“ A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. ”
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