Mother Teresa1910–1997I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Reflects on Working Toward Peace, (essay, Santa Clara University, retrieved August 2012).I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
- Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).
