In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Being Unwanted, Unloved, Uncared for, forgotten by everybody, is much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
