Nothing worthwhile comes easily

Nothing worthwhile comes easily.

Half effort does not produce half results,

in fact it produces no results.

Work, continuous work and hard work are

the only ways to accomplish results that last.

On Sunday my coffee is recreational, as opposed to weekdays when it is medicinal.

On Sunday my coffee is recreational, as opposed to weekdays when it is medicinal.

Mother Teresa on Compassion

Mother Teresa on Compassion
Have a deep compassion for people.
To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray.
Especially be kind and loving to the poor. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. We are in debt to them.

Imagine a situation:
We help a poor person with a small amount of money or small quantity of food, the small portion maybe insignificant for us, but for the poor person, that much less money or food he has to arrange, whereby he may bless us in his heart, which makes us rich.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have.

Mother Teresa principle:
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve people with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you are honored by others.

This is how I have understood this principle:
We sympathize with powerless people but when it is in our own family, our own career or our own reputation is at stake, then we do not take the risk and we normally support the people with power.

Often the odds are against the powerless people, they are likely to lose. Even if they are right and in our hearts we support them, but supporting the powerless is to risk failure, disapproval, end of a career, end of promotion etc. So we love the powerless, but we tend to follow the powerful people, we do what is respectable.

However, not every powerless person is right and not every powerless person's issues are important. But some are. From time to time we will discover a powerless person who needs the kind of help we can give, because of our position and our belief we should help that powerless person.
Later on when we look back at our life, we may conclude that fighting for a few powerless people was one of the most meaningful things we ever did.

Don't worry about hard times, because some of the most beautiful things we have in life came from changes or mistakes.

Don't worry about hard times, because some of the most beautiful things we have in life came from changes or mistakes.

Show respect even to people who do not deserve it

Show respect even to people who do not deserve it;

 

Not as a reflection of their character,

 

But as a reflection of yours

Judging people

Judging people:

We never ask people why they are on the street or in their present situation:

We don't need to know their history.

We don't judge people for whatever situation they are in, because all they want is someone to love and care and they are satisfied.

Said Sister Dolores, one of the sister of Mother Teresa

Holding Hands

Holding hands is a promise to one another, that for just a moment, the two of us do not have to face the world alone

Mother Teresa on power

Mother Teresa principle:
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you are honored by others.