I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual.
In plain words
Big grand plans matter less than the one person in front of you.
Where these words come from
- 45% sureLots of sources credit Mother Teresa with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- As quoted in 'Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love — Stories Told by Mother Teresa,' compiled by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha (2002), p. 122 — a posthumous compilation, so held per the posthumous-compilation test even though the wording is consistent and widely repeated.
- Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love, ed. Le Joly & Chaliha
- 2002 · undated
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