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.

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Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997), Bharat Ratna, OM, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India.  Her work among the poverty-stricken in Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003. 

Born in Uskub, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia), at 18 she left home to join the Sisters of Loretto.  

In 1962, she received the Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding.  In 1971, she was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and St. Gabriel award.  Teresa was also awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bart Ratna, in 1980.  She was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1981.  She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States (one of only two people to have this honor during their lifetime) in 1996, and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.  She was the first and only person to be featured on an Indian postage stamp while still alive.

Mother Teresa Quotes

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.