Mother Teresa

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into the giving."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"We cannot all do great things, but we can do things with great love and devotion."

"Patience is the ornament of the brave."

"Make it a point to always have time. Time is what we need most, but what we use worst."

"Giving with a smile is always better than giving with sadness."

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

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt but only more love."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"Lack of trust is the greatest obstacle to unity and peace."

"In the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

"Smile to people; it takes muscles to frown but only to smile."

"Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what you pretend to be."

"I want you to be happy, and for that you need truth and love."

"To cure leprosy, you must touch the leper."

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."

"The more you own the more it owns you."

"Forgive and forget. This is not a weakness, this is a strength."

"A life not lived for others is not a life."

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is rather the assessment that something else is more important than despair."

"Suffering in itself is not meritorious, but suffering borne with love is."

"Do you want to do something meaningful? Love someone unconditionally."

"One never knows how much a simple act of kindness can mean to another."

"The work we do is merely a vehicle to make our love visible."

"Some of us feel that what we do is important for love of Jesus. We feel this is the work which must be done."