“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

— Matka Tereza

As quoted in Love Until It Hurts: A Tribute to Mother Teresa and the work of the men and women of the Missionaries of Charity (1980) by Daphne Rae
1980s

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Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910–1997

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