MOTHER TERESA COMPASSION QUOTES

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”

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

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

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

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Peace begins with a smile.”

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

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.”

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together, we can do great things.”

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” WE THE WILLING QUOTE MEANING

“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”

“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?”

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

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature –trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.”

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

“At the end of life, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.'”

“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”