When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.