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“We Can Do No Great Things- Only Small Things with Great Love.”- Mother Theresa.
“We can do no great things- only small things with great love.”- Mother Theresa.

“I see trees are green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.” – George David Weiss. Have you ever sat back and watched the clouds or maybe looked at the trees and how they sway in the wind and thought “who could have possibly done all this?” Everyone is born programmed into their mind that there is such thing as a higher being whether you believe in God or Buddha or whoever. Now us as human can come to the conclusion that there is no way for us to possibly make a cloud in the sky or develop a seed for a tree to grow we can do no such great thing as these. Mother Theresa once said and I quote “We can do no great things- only small things with great love.” As I said before we can do no great things like our “higher power” we can not make miracles happen or make the sun rise or fall but we as people can do other less greater things. For example we humans can not cure cancer or any other sickness. But with years of hard work doctors can kindly and lovingly accept people into our hospitals and can treat cancer. People are always going to be rude and try and put you down. But its up to you to fight for what you think is right and try and do that small but great thing that the world is needing more and more today. You and your contribution can be the one thing that can help that one cancer patient or what will make world peace but its all up to how great you want this world to come to and how hard you try and reach for that

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