Mother Teresa Quotes

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

An entire content of children growing up without any prospect but poverty.

Raise your hand if you have a poor friend?

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

Every day I ask my husband, 'Is it possible to over kiss your child?' I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It's not normal!

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.