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101 " 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. "
― Mother Teresa
102 " What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. "
103 " God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. "
104 " I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. "
105 " Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "
106 " If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. "
107 " I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts... "
108 " If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. "
109 " Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God. "
― Mother Teresa , Mother Teresa: In My Own Words
110 " Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. "
111 " Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. "
112 " Live simply so others may simply live. "
113 " God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His. "
114 " A life not lived for others is not a life. "
115 " In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. These words, taken from the book A Simple Path, are the words of one of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters, not of Mother Teresa. "
116 " When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love. "
― Mother Teresa , A Simple Path
117 " Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. "
118 " 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. "
119 " We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. "
120 " Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor. "
― Mother Teresa , In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers