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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one." - Mother Teresa

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"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

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"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

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"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa 

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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa

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"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa

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"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa

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

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

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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother Teresa 

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"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible." - Mother Teresa

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"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving." - Mother Teresa 

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

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"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

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"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" - Mother Teresa

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"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." - Mother Teresa 

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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because 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." - Mother Teresa

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"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." - Mother Teresa

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"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

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"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God." - Mother Teresa

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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.“-  Mother Teresa 

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"The greatest poverty in the world is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." - Mother Teresa 

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

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

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"Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service." - Mother Teresa

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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." - Mother Teresa 

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"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." - Mother Teresa 

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"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." - Mother Teresa 

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"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put into that action." - Mother Teresa 

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

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