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Quotes by Albanian Authors
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible 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."
"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."
"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."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation."
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
"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 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 medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"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?"
"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
"We can do no great things-only small things with great love."
"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
"Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved."
"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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