Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997) Roman Catholic Nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner; born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi.

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

• If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
  - From her National Prayer Breakfast Speech Against Abortion (1994)

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

• People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
  Forgive them anyway.
  If you are kind, People may Accuse you of Selfish, Ulterior motives;
  Be kind anyway.
  If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
  Succeed anyway.
  If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
  Be Honest and Frank anyway.
  What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
  Build anyway.
  If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
  Be happy anyway.
  The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
  Do good anyway.
  Give the world the best you have,
  and it may never be enough;
  Give the world the best you've got anyway.
  You see, in the final analysis,
  it is between you and God;
  It was never between you and them anyway.

• "The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."

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

• Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

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

• I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do 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?" (Liberty.com)

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

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

• 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.

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

• Men do no great things, only small things with great love.

• Peace begins with a smile.

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

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