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Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
- Robert Orben
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- 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
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- 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
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- 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
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- 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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -
the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
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