Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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.
Peace begins with a smile.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
