“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
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Famous Mother Teresa Quotes
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Source: No Greater Love
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
Source: A Simple Path-Open Market
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”
Source: A Simple Path
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
“In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.”
“Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.”
“We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich”