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

—Mother Teresa

About Mother Teresa

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Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.

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

—Mother Teresa

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

—Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.

—Mother Teresa

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.

—Mother Teresa

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

—Mother Teresa

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It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

—W. L. George

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

—Edmund Burke

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Love is the only gold.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

History

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