Mother Teresa
(1910-1997)

Albanian Roman Catholic Nun, Humanitarian
1976 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award
1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom
1992 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
1997 Congressional Gold Medal

birthdate: August 27                           birthplace: Skopje, Macedonia

QUOTES

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed

The poor must know that we love them, that they are wanted. They themselves have nothing to give but love. We are concerned with how to get this message of love across. We are trying to bring peace to the world through our work.

"Love cannot remain by itself-it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and that action is service... All works of love are works of peace."

"Peace starts with a smile"

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

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

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

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

We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

All works of love are works of peace.

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

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."

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.

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

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."

"...I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."

"I don't do great things. I do small things with great love."

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.

 

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