Mother Teresa Quotes on Happiness

Mother Teresa Quotes on Happiness
How can we simply miss out talking about 'Happiness', when we are praising Mother Teresa through her own golden quotes? Here are some quotes telling you what happiness meant for this lady of benevolence...

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those."

"One filled with joy preaches without preaching"

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

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

"Peace begins with a smile."

"If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

"It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy."

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

Mother Teresa Inspirational Quotes
To help the fallen to stand and teach him to walk again, is a matter of great inspiration and love. Mother Teresa was considered a living source of undying motivation and courage. Although, she is not among us today, her quotes still glimmer with her thoughts of sheer motivation for others. So here are some which are also a part of the Mother Teresa quotes on life. Read more on inspirational quotes.

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

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

"God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."

Mother Teresa Quotes on Life

Mother Teresa Quotes on Life
To begin, let's us relive some of the best quotes of Mother Teresa, which were analogous to life and living.

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."

"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself."

"We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family"

"Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily"

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."

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

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."

Mother Teresa Quotations

On Love
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

On God
Let's do something beautiful for God.

On Love
Love is like a fruit in season at all times. Love can warm three winter months.

On Love
The fruit of faith is love.

On Love
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

On Love
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

On Peace
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Love
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Happiness
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Love
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Poverty
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Attitude
I think I'm more difficult than critical.

Love
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Love
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody

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

Work
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devoticome in -- that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa on Life Quotes

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth. There are no slums up here.' Mother Teresa Quoted as telling Prince Michael of Greece in 1996

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile. Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. 'I will be a saint' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia. Mother Teresa Washington 1984

Mother Teresa Life Quotes

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa

Now let us do something beautiful for God. Mother Teresa Before making TV program about Missionaries of Charity

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius. Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, They may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway. Mother Teresa

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. Mother Teresa Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991

So many signatures for such a small heart. Mother Teresa Referring to form-filling in a California hospital

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own 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. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. Mother Teresa

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa on Life Quotes

Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me. Mother Teresa

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks - but homeless because of rejection. Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

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 . . . We must find each other. Mother Teresa

By blood and origin I am Albanian. My citizenship is Indian. I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the whole world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus. Mother Teresa

God will find another person, more humble, more devoted, more obedient to him, and the society will go on. Mother Teresa Calcutta 1989, after announcing her intention to retire

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal. Mother Teresa

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (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. Mother Teresa Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979

I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself), 'What do they feel when they do this?' I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don't understand. Mother Teresa Beirut 1982, during fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle; I just wish He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa life Quotes

I love St. Francis of Assisi, because he had a great love for animals. He used to talk with them and play with them - and scold them if they did harm to anybody. I love animals, too. Animals are such simple creations of God's beauty. Mother Teresa

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. Mother Teresa

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

I was expecting to be free, but God has his own plans. Mother Teresa Calcutta 1990, when the sisters of her order persuaded her to withdraw her resignation

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

Joy is a net by which you catch souls. Mother Teresa

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. Mother Teresa