The miracle is not that we do this work,
by Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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Sayings by Mother Teresa
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
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God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
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.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -
the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
Miracle Sayings
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment
in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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