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One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not m...more

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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has no...more

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that a...more

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

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A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

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Give, but give until it hurts.

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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just giv...more

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In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the wo...more

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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medici...more

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Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He ask...more

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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.