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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
Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.
~ Unknown
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
~ Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
~ 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.
~ 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
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
~ 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
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
~ Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
~ Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
~ Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
~ Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
~ Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Unknown