Mother Teresa Quotes

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

Yet I also believe that when you do unto others, blessings come to you as well. So if you don't have a friend, be a friend. If you are having a bad day, make someone else's day. If your feelings are hurt, heal those of another.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.