Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
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.
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.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Peace begins with a smile.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Don’t frown because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you’re being self-indulgent.
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little do what you can.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Adversity isn’t set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Change your thoughts, change your life!
Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Letting go isnt the end of the world; its the beginning of a new life.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Skill to do comes of doing.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox
We are all something, but none of us are everything.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
A good rest is half the work.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Your destiny isn’t just fate; it is how you use your own developed abilities to get what you want.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
As you think, so shall you become.
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
An obstacle may be either a stepping stone or a stumbling block.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
An obstacle may be either a stepping stone or a stumbling block.
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.