Teresa

As the founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, Mother Teresa is the epitome of compassion and love. Her life is a saga of courage and endurance. It is an inspiration for people devoted to the service of God and humanity. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa dedicated herself to the service of the poor till the end of her life. Teresa was not just any nun, she was peace personified.

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

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

• Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

• I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

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

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

• Good works are links that form a chain of love.

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

• 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 begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

• It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

• If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

• We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

• Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

• I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

• Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

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

• God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

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