MOTHER TERESA

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence."

"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."

"When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again."

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."

"A life not lived for others is not a life."

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."

"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."

"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."

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

"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."

"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."

"Joy is strength."

"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."

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly."

"Work without love is slavery."

"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together."

"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you."

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

"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one. That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

"If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve."

"Never be so busy as not to think of others."

"If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

"The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love."

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

"A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves."

"If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between."

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

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

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

"The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway."

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people."

"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."

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

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

"If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway."