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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
Mother Teresa
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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
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Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
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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 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.
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