Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

—Mother Teresa

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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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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

—Mother Teresa

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

—Mother Teresa

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

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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.

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The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

—Philip Roth in The Dying Animal

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