The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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Mother TeresaAs quoted by Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (1971)
About Mother Teresa
Catholic nun who served the poor in Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize. (1910-1997)
More from Mother Teresa
- 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)
More quotes on kindness and giving
- A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.Jimmy Carter
- The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.Jimmy Carter
- We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.Jimmy Carter
- When they go low, we go high.Michelle Obama
- No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.Nelson Mandela
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.Nelson Mandela
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