Best of Mother Teresa Quotes

Biography

• Born: 26^th August 1910
• Birthplace: Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
• Died: 5^th September 1997
• Cause of death: Heart failure
• Location of death: Kolkata, India 
• Remains: Buried , Motherhouse Convent, Calcutta, India
• Ethnicity: Albania
• Occupation: Catholic Nun/missionary
• Nationality: India
• Other name: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
• Parents Nikollë Bojaxhiu (father) Dranafile Bojaxhiu (mother)

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. 

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. 

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

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

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

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. 

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

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. 

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. 

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 

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

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