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.

More from Mother Teresa

• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
• 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?
• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.