Quotations of selected author

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

1910-1997. True name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi. Roman Catholic Nun, she helped poorest people in India and received a Nobel Peace Prize.


1. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

categories: Time and Passing


2. "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."

categories: Human -:- Various


3. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."

categories: Love


4. "The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise."

categories: God and Religion


5. "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

categories: Family and Loneliness


6. "Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house."

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Love


7. "Peace begins with a smile."

categories: Peace and War


8. "Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

categories: Human -:- Love



9. "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

categories: Family and Loneliness


10. "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."

categories: Love


11. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

categories: Love


12. "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want."

categories: Manners and Ethics


13. "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?"

categories: God and Religion -:- Human


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

categories: Love -:- Pain and Tears


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

categories: God and Religion -:- Success and Fame


16. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

categories: Various