Mother Teresa

1910 - 1997

In 1948, Mother Teresa came across a woman half eaten up by rats and ants lying in front of a hospital in Calcutta, India. She stayed with the woman until she died. From that point on she dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity.

I think today the world is upside down, and is suffering so much because there is so very little love in the home, and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other, there is no time to enjoy each other. Love begins at home; love lives in homes, and that is why there is so much suffering and so much unhappiness in the world today...Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."