Quotes by Mother Teresa


Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over forty five years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

feeling of being unwanted

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

— Mother Teresa

only more love

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

— Mother Teresa

love letter to the world

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone

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

— Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

— Mother Teresa

love without getting tired

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

— Mother Teresa

much greater poverty

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