Mother Teresa Quotes

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

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 was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

Remember that I am a human.

We can't forget that there are so many young people who are homeless - and unbelievably vulnerable.

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.

I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

I would never ever dare to objectify anyone who has fed me, protected me or loved me.

I will not be touched if someone says, 'I do not love you.' You have the right. You do not have to love me.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.