Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don`t really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it`s because th

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God`s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don`t want their children, give them to me.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.