“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

“Life is a game, play it.”

— Mother Teresa

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

“Work without love is slavery.”

— Mother Teresa

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

— Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

“Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”

— Mother Teresa

“Live simply so others may simply live.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— 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

“Together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”

— Mother Teresa

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

“God speaks in the silence of the heart.”

— Mother Teresa

“Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.”

— Mother Teresa

“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”

— Mother Teresa

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

“Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”

— Mother Teresa

“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.”

— Mother Teresa

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

— Mother Teresa

“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

— Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.”

— Mother Teresa

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”

— Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”

— Mother Teresa

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

— Mother Teresa

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”

— Mother Teresa

“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”

— Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

— Mother Teresa

“Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.”

— Mother Teresa

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

“Give, but give until it hurts.”

— Mother Teresa

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

— Mother Teresa

“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”

— Mother Teresa

“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

“Let’s do something beautiful for God.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa