Quotes about Connection
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
— Mortimer Adler
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
— Mortimer Adler
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
— Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.
— Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
— Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
— Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
— Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
— Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
— Mother Teresa