To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
MOTHER TERESALive simply so others may simply live.
More Mother Teresa Quotes
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What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
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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.
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
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Never be so busy as not to think of others.
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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.
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People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
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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.
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Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you.
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There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
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I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
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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.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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Give, but give until it hurts.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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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.
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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.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
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I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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