"If you are humble
nothing will touch you,
neither praise nor disgrace,
because you know what you are."
-Mother Teresa

"The hunger for love is much more difficult
to remove than the hunger for bread."
-Mother Teresa

"We can do no great things:
only small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa

"If you judge people,
you have no time to love them."
-Mother Teresa

"The world today is hungry
not only for bread but hungry for love;
hungry to be wanted, to be loved."
-Mother Teresa

"Before you speak,
it is necessary for you to listen,
for God speaks in the silence of the heart."
-Mother Teresa

"We have been created to love and to be loved."
-Mother Teresa

"Do not allow yourselves
to be disheartened
by any failure
as long as you
have done your best."
-Mother Teresa

"We must make our homes
centers of compassion
and forgive endlessly."
-Mother Teresa

"If we really want to love
we must learn how to forgive."
-Mother Teresa

"If we pray, we will believe;
If we believe, we will love;
If we love, we will serve."
-Mother Teresa

"I see God in every human being.
When I wash the leper's wounds
I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.
Is it not a beautiful experience?"
-Mother Teresa

"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,
nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss
of life your weapons will cause."
-Mother Teresa

"The other day I dreamed
that I was at the gates of heaven.
And St. Peter said,
'Go back to Earth,
there are no slums up here."
-Mother Teresa

"The poor give us much more than we
give them. They're such strong people,
living day to day with no food.
And they never curse, never complain.
We don't have to give them pity or sympathy.
We have so much to learn from them."
-Mother Teresa

"Intense love does not measure;
it just gives."
-Mother Teresa

"Little things are indeed little,
but to be faithful in little things
is a great thing."
-Mother Teresa

"Give until it hurts."
-Mother Teresa