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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Nelson Mandela
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
-Steve Jobs
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
-Oprah Winfrey
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
-James Cameron
Life is what happens when you're busy making
other plans.
-John Lennon
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
-Mother Teresa
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
-Margaret Mead
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
-Anne Frank
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
-Margaret Mead
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
-Aristotle
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
-Anne Frank
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will face many defeats in life, but never let
yourself be defeated.
-Maya Angelou
Be Grateful
Poet: Julie Hebert, ©2016
In life we must be grateful,
For all that we own.
There are too many people,
Who are lost and all alone.
We are given so much,
Yet seem to forget.
These things that we have,
Carry so much debt.
Be grateful for what you have,
Show all your praise.
For we are the lucky ones,
Be happy and amaze.
But most importantly,
Share your blessings with others.
To us it is just stuff,
But a treasure to another.
ONE
One word can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream;
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald Spring.
One smile can bring a friendship,
One handclasp can lift a soul;
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One cheer can obtain a goal.
One vote can change a Nation,
One sunbeam can lift a room;
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.
One look can change two lives;
One kiss can make love bloom.
One step must start each journey,
One word must start each prayer;
One hope can raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what’s true;
One life can make a difference,
One life is me and you…
-Shawnee Kellie
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian), in Üsküb—now Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
Powerful Quotes by Mother Teresa on Kindness and Love
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“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.”
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”
“Good works are links that form a chain of love.”
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather he will ask, ‘How much LOVE did you put into what you did?’”
“I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“I think I’m more difficult than critical.”
“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“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.”
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of 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.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
“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, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.”
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
“We fear the future because we are wasting today.”
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”
“Work without love is slavery.”
“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
“Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?”
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.”
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”
“I fear just one thing: Money! Greed
was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus”
“Life is a challenge; we must take it.”
“If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.”
“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”
“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.”
“I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.”
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”
“If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others”
“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.”
“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
“The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.”
“The fruit of faith is love, and the fruit of love is service…spread love everywhere u go..”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.”
“Together we can do great things.”
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So, we have to go through the fire.”
“If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.”
“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”
“At the moment of death, we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.”
“A way of satisfying our brethrens’ hunger is to share with them whatever we have – to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel.”
“True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.”
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without being tired.”
“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.”
“To work without love is slavery.”
“God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful.”
“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.”
“One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
“We cannot give what we have not got.”
“We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else.”
“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.”
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
“One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.”
“Life’s a song, sing it.”
“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”
“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.”
“The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.”
“Not handouts, but rather hands held.”
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
“Although she be but little, she is fierce.”
“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.”
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”
“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.”
“In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.”
“The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.”
“True love is giving and giving until it hurts.”
“Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.”
“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“Do extraordinary things with love.”
“Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.”
“I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.”
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“You are greater than you know.”
“Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.”
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.”
“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
“People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.”
“And whatever you did to the least of my brethren, you did it to me.”
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred… If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
“Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.”
“If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.”
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
“…I embrace suffering even before it actually comes, and like this Jesus and I live in love.”
“Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.”
“God speaks in the silence of the heart.”
“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
“I never get mixed up in what governments should or should not do. Instead of spending time [on] those questions, I say, “Let me do [something] now.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
“Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it.”
“The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.”
“We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.”
“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.”
“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”
“We must never forget that we are bound toward perfection and should aim ceaselessly at it.”
“You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.”
“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God’s work with a smile.”
“We have to possess before we can give.”
“If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.”
“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
“We must never forget that we are bound toward perfection and should aim ceaselessly at it.”
“Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.”
“Peace and war start within one’s own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families. Sometimes it is hard for us to smile at one another.”
“Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.”
“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them 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.”
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.”
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
“Prayer is necessary to reach that goal. Because it is the breath of life to our soul, holiness is impossible without it.”
“There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.”
“At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.”
“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.”
“If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, just more love.”
“Love is a fruit always in season, and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love.”
“If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
“Keep the light of Christ always shining bright in your hearts.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever leave you without being happier.”
“Sincerity is humility, and you acquire humility only by accepting humiliations.”
“If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we cannot see?”
“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
“Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.”
“Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.”
“Love should be as natural as living and breathing.”
“There’s nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there’s someone fighting with you.”
“Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.”
“In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.”
