Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save t… - Mother Teresa

"I remember my mother. They say she was very holy. One day three of us were [saying] not nice things about the teacher. It was night. [My mother] got up and [turned] off the main switch. She said, "I am a widow. . . . I have no money to spend on electricity for you to talk evil." And we had to do everything in darkness — go up and down, wash, go to bed."

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty