“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
“Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.”
“Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.”
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”
“Together we can do great things.”
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
“Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”
“We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.”
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
“Life is an adventure, dare it.”
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.”
“You are greater than you know.”
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
“God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.”
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
