We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
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Mother TeresaAs reported by her biographer Navin Chawla
About Mother Teresa
Catholic nun who served the poor in Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize. (1910-1997)
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- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.Interview in TIME (1989)
- 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)
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