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- Wikiquote Sourced section citing Charlotte Gray, Mother Teresa: Her Mission (1988), published while she was alive -- not a posthumous quote-book compilation.
- Mother Teresa: Her Mission (Charlotte Gray)
- 1988 · Calcutta, India · A reminder about kindness starting in the family
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Mother TeresaKind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother TeresaDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.Mother TeresaI do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual.Mother TeresaIf we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother TeresaWe ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.Mother TeresaMore on kindness
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
Chief JosephNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
Charles DickensThere is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.
Leo TolstoyAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.
Benito JuárezAs to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
HippocratesThe quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
William Shakespeare
Chief JosephNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.Charles DickensThere is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.Leo TolstoyAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.Benito JuárezAs to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.HippocratesThe quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.William Shakespeare