The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
As quoted by Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (1971)
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Mother Teresa quotes
1910-1997 ยท Presidents and world leaders
Catholic nun who served the poor in Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
7 quotes, 5 traced to where Teresa said or wrote them.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
As quoted in Women of Faith and Spirit (1987)
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Interview in TIME (1989)
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
As reported by her biographer Navin Chawla
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.
As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007)
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Essay on working toward peace, Santa Clara University archive
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
As quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life (1998)