Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

…Spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Teresa

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

Mother Teresa

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

Mother Teresa

God loves the world through us.

Mother Teresa

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

Mother Teresa

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Mother Teresa

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Mother Teresa

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

Mother Teresa

Love is repaid by love alone!

Mother Teresa

Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

Mother Teresa

Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.

Mother Teresa

If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

Mother Teresa

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Teresa

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Victor Hugo

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

Victor Hugo

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Victor Hugo

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

Victor Hugo

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Victor Hugo

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Victor Hugo

Loving is half of believing.

Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Victor Hugo

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

Victor Hugo

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Victor Hugo

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Victor Hugo

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.