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Mother Teresa was a 20th-century Indian albanian-indian catholic saint. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
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“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
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