Mother Teresa
Amazing Facts
*Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu(Gonxhe means "rosebud" or "little flower") on 26 August 1910 in Skopje.
*She was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.
*Won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for dedicating her life to the sick and hungry.
*Voted as one of the 10 most admirable women 18 times in her life!
Key Learnings
Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness. Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.
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. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Live simply so others may simply live.
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.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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.
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.
Quotes - Gyan
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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