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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

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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 make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
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Spread love everywhere you go first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
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Be faithful in the little things.
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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
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A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
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Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
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If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
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The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.
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To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
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I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.
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If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
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I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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