“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”
“Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.”
“Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
“Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
“The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“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.”
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“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.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“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.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
“The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.”
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
