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A renowned humanitarian known for her unwavering dedication to helping the poorest and most vulnerable, she devoted her life to serving those in dire need. As the founder of a charitable organization, she focused on providing care to the sick, orphaned, and dying, often in the most challenging circumstances. Her compassion, humility, and tireless work earned her global admiration, leaving a lasting legacy of kindness and selfless service to humanity.

Mother Teresa Icon Image
Mother Teresa
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A renowned humanitarian known for her unwavering dedication to helping the poorest and most vulnerable, she devoted her life to serving those in dire need. As the founder of a charitable organization, she focused on providing care to the sick, orphaned, and dying, often in the most challenging circumstances. Her compassion, humility, and tireless work earned her global admiration, leaving a lasting legacy of kindness and selfless service to humanity.

The most important medicine is tender love and care

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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

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Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.

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We are all pencils in the hand of God

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Life is beauty, admire it

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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve.

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If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

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We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

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I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

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We belong to each other

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If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

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Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there.

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On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

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Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action.

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Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

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In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

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If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

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Peace starts with a smile

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If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!

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