Quotes from Mother Teresa
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary."
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
"Be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
"It is easy to love the people far away, it is not always easy to love those close to us."
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
"It is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them."
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.
"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you; be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."