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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 TeresaMother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa Life is a game, play it.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa 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 TeresaMother Teresa One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa Give, but give until it hurts.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa Intense love does not measure it just gives.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa 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 TeresaMother Teresa Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa
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