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Quotes by Albanian Authors
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation."
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
"Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target."
"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
"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 mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
"We can do no great things-only small things with great love."
"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."
"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."
"In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?"
"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 are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty."
"I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."
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