If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—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.

More quotations from Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

—Mother Teresa

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

—Mother Teresa

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.

—Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

—Mother Teresa

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.

—Mother Teresa

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

—George Orwell

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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

—E. F. Schumacher

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg

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The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology.… Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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