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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
Saint
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
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He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.
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The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.
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Life is beauty, admire it.
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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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There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
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Each of us is merely a small instrument all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
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We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
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Joy is prayer joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
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