I leave you the best phrases of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic religious congregation that is dedicated to helping people without resources.
You may also be interested in these phrases of Mahatma Gandhi or these of Buddha.
-I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
-Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We only have the present. Let us begin.
-The hunger for love is much more difficult to eliminate than the hunger for bread.
-Never be so busy as not to think about others.
-I can't change the world alone, but I can throw a stone into the water to create many ripples.
-Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
-If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither the praise nor the shame, because you know what you are.
-Joy is strength.
-The problem with the world is that we draw our family circle too small.
-I can not stop working. I will have all eternity to rest.
-When the door of happiness closes another one opens, but sometimes we look at the closed door for so long that we don't see the one that has opened in front of us..
-Sometimes we feel that what we do is just a drop in an ocean. But the ocean would be less without that missing drop.
-If you judge people, you won't have time to love them.
-If I look at the masses, I will never act.
-Spread love wherever you go. Don't let anyone come to you without making them happier.
-He who is impeccable does not care about the opinions of others.
-The way to help heal the world is to start with your own family..
-Life is a challenge, you have to take it.
-Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit on it.
-When you have nothing, then you have everything.
-Be happy right now, that's enough. Every moment is all we need, no more.
-I can do things that you cannot, you can do things that I cannot; together we can do great things.
-What you build in years can be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
-Work without love is slavery.
-Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
-If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because you show confidence in your own strength.
-To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil on it.
-We can't all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
-A life not lived by others is not a life.
-I have discovered the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more pain, only more love..
-We learn humility by accepting humiliations happily.
-If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
-The deep joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
-We are all pencils in God's hand.
-The peace begins with a smile.
-If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
-Kind words may be short and easy to say, but their echoes are truly endless..
-Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to the other person, something beautiful.
-One of the biggest diseases is being nobody to nobody.
-We don't need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
-Be faithful in the little things because your strength resides in them.
-Love begins by taking care of those closest to us, those of our home.
-If we do not have peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-Intense love is not only measured, it is simply given.
-Sometimes we think that poverty is just being hungry, naked, or homeless. The poverty of not being loved and cared for is the greatest poverty. We must begin to remedy this type of poverty in our own homes.
-Even the rich are hungry for love, to be cared for, to be loved, to have someone call them.
-We cannot do great things in this world, only small things with great love.
-Spread God's love throughout your life, but only use words when necessary.
-The hunger for love is much more difficult to eliminate than the hunger for bread.
-Some people come into our life as blessings. Some come as lessons.
-What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
-Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
-Live simply so others can just live.
-Everything that is not given is lost.
-The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace
-Children are like stars. There are never too many
-Without our suffering, our task would not differ from social assistance.
-There is a very beautiful thing: sharing the joy of loving. Love one another. Love until the pain.
-You have to be careful of pride, because it debases anything.
-Criticism is nothing more than concealed pride. A sincere soul will never stoop to criticism. criticism is heart cancer.
-I would rather make mistakes with kindness and compassion than work miracles with rudeness and harshness.
-Life is too precious, don't destroy it.
-I acknowledge and know that God will not give me anything that I cannot handle. I just wish sometimes, that he didn't trust me so much.
-Don't wait for the governors to make the decisions. Do it on your own, person to person.
-If at any time resentment has manifested in our hearts, or if at some point we have not accepted humiliation, we will never learn to be humble..
-I want you to worry about the person who lives next to you. Ask yourself: Do I really know my neighbor??
-If you are too busy to pray ... you really are too busy.
-I do not know exactly what paradise will be like, but I know that when we are no longer in this place and the time comes for God to judge us, he will not ask us: How many good things have you done in your life? But, if you ask us: How much love did you put into what you did?
-Joy is prayer, joy is strength: joy is love, joy is a network of love with which you can catch people's hearts.
-The miracle is not that we do a job, the miracle is to find a job that we are happy to do..
-Do not consider that love to be true has to be surprising. What we really need is to love without getting tired. Always be faithful to the little things because it is in them where your impulse resides.
-Let us caress the homeless, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted. We are never ashamed or delay in doing humble work.
-Even people with a lot of money are starved for love, in need of being cared for, of being loved, of having someone to call their own..
-May no person come to you without becoming someone better and happier. Always try to become the living expression of God's mercy. Always reflect kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, courtesy in your smile.
-The most terrible misery is loneliness and the perception of not being loved.
-It is not about how much we give to others, but about the effort and love we put into giving..
-At the end of the path of life, we will not be judged by how many diplomas or certificates we have obtained, nor by the money we have raised. We will be judged for having helped cure hunger, for having dressed someone naked, for providing a home for a homeless person.
-God does not request that we succeed, He only intends that we try despite the circumstances.
-The greatest suffering in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy, it is not being wanted or loved. We can cure physical illnesses with medicine, but the only cure for isolation, disappointment, and hopelessness is love..
-There are few ways in which we can practice humility, some of them are the following: avoid talking about oneself, not getting involved in other people's affairs, avoiding curiosities and accepting mistakes to correct them quickly.
-How can you say that there are too many children? That statement is like suggesting that there are too many flowers.
-One of the best ways to show my gratitude to God is by acknowledging everything, including complications, with great joy..
-I am a tiny pencil in the holy hand of a God who writes stories, who is in charge of sending many love letters to the world.
-Joy is a connection of love by which we take care of catching souls.
-If you know what you are, if you become a humble person, nothing will touch you, not the praises, much less the misfortunes.
-If a mother can murder her own child, what can be left in the world? We will end up killing each other.
-If we consider that abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong in the world.
-I always remember him: sweet Lord, make me appreciate the decency of my great vocation and its great responsibilities. Never let me dishonor my dedication by giving in to callousness, unkindness, or impatience..
-Poverty in today's world is an unequal type of poverty: it is not only poverty related to loneliness, but also associated with spirituality. There is a hunger for love, since there is an absence of God.
-It is not for human beings to destroy what God has given us. Please allow your minds and your wills to become the mind and will of God..
-I expected to be free, but God has his own plans for each of us.
-When you know how much love God feels for you and how in love he is, you will understand that you can only live with the ultimate goal of radiating that love to the rest of the world..
-A few days ago I dreamed that I was near the gates of heaven and Saint Peter told me: return to Earth, there is still no space here.
-It is impossible to walk fast and be miserable.
-I see God in every human being. When I wash the wounds of the infected, I feel that I am feeding the Lord himself. Can it not then become a precious experience?
-The poor always have more to offer than we do. They are such resistant people that they live day after day without food and never curse, never complain.
-If luxury spreads, we lose the spirit of God's command.
-Always remember; in the world there is from time to time a Jesus in disguise.
-When parents have very little time for their children, at home the complication of peace in the rest of the world begins.
-Good deeds are links that form a continuation of love.
-If we want a message of love to spread, we have to send it constantly. To keep a lamp lit, it is necessary to put more oil on it from time to time.
-It is practically total poverty for humanity to decide that a child must die so that some can live as they wish..
-It is easier to offer a full cup of rice to alleviate hunger than to alleviate the loneliness and suffering of someone who is not loved in their own home..
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