"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
Mother Teresa

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
Mother Teresa

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
Mother Teresa



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

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
Mother Teresa



"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
Mother Teresa

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
Mother Teresa

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
Mother Teresa

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."
Mother Teresa



"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile."
Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
Mother Teresa

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
Mother Teresa

"We 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 Teresa