Mother Teresa
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
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"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
"لا تظن أن الحب، لكي يكون حقيقيًا، يجب أن يكون خارقًا للعادة. ما نحتاجه هو أن نحب دون كلل."
Mother Teresa
"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred... If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?"
"لا ينبغي أن نُفاجأ حين نسمع عن جرائم القتل، أو عن الحروب، أو عن الكراهية... فإذا كانت الأم تستطيع أن تقتل طفلها، فماذا يبقى لنا إلا أن يقتل بعضنا بعضًا؟"
Mother Teresa
"If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will."
"إذا نظرتُ إلى الجماهير، فلن أتحرك أبدًا. أما إذا نظرتُ إلى الواحد، فسأفعل."
Mother Teresa
"At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."
"في نهاية المطاف، لن نُحاسَب على عدد الشهادات التي نِلناها، ولا على كمية الأموال التي جمعناها، ولا على عِظم الإنجازات التي حققناها. بل سنُحاسَب على: "كنتُ جائعًا فأطعمتني، وكنتُ عاريًا فكسوتني، وكنتُ بلا مأوى فآويتني."
Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Mother Teresa
"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa
"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
Mother Teresa
"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."
Mother Teresa
"A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted."
Mother Teresa
"You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty."
Mother Teresa
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
Mother Teresa
"The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes."
Mother Teresa
"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
Mother Teresa
"In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel."
Mother Teresa
"I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."
Mother Teresa
"I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me."
Mother Teresa
"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
Mother Teresa
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."
Mother Teresa
"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."
Mother Teresa
"Give, but give until it hurts."
Mother Teresa
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