Mother Teresa

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

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

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise.

Mother Teresa

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Mother Teresa

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Mother Teresa

When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia.

Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa