Mother Teresa Quotes

Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools... You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see... Wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone.

A smile is an act of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

We must not separate our lives from the Eucharist. If we do so, something shatters.

Your life must be woven around the Eucharist. Direct your eyes to Him, who is the Light; bring your hearts very close to His Divine Heart; ask Him for the grace to know Him, for the charity to love Him, for the courage to serve Him. Seek Him longingly.

You are the future of family life. You are the future of the joy of loving. You are the future of making your life something beautiful for God... a pure love. Keep your love virgin, so that on the day of your marriage you can give to each other... the joy of a pure love.

Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

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

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

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.

People are ... self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. ... The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM, not you and them.

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

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace. We need love and compassion.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

God only gives you as much as he knows you can handle.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is beginning of prayer.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Love them anyway.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Live each day as if it is your first, last, or only day.

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