About Mother Teresa

Catholic nun who served the poor in Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize. (1910-1997)

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More from Mother Teresa

• 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)
• 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

More quotes on kindness and giving

• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.Nelson Mandela
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Mahatma Gandhi
• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.Mahatma Gandhi
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Martin Luther King Jr.
• Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'Martin Luther King Jr.
• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.Martin Luther King Jr.

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