Saint Teresa of Jesus Quote

Perfect love has this power: that we forget our happiness to make those we love happy.

If in the midst of adversities the heart perseveres with serenity, with joy, and with peace, this is love.

I have committed the worst of sins, I wanted to be happy.

Read and you will drive, don't read and you will be driven.

Oh, how long this life is! / How hard these exiles are! / This prison, these chains / in which the soul is confined! / Only waiting for the way out causes me such fierce pain, / that I am dying because I do not die.

Although women are not good at giving advice, sometimes we are right.

The untilled land will bear thorns and thistles even though it may be fertile; so is the understanding of man.

Extremes are not good even in virtue.

I do not sell myself, it is the only luxury of the poor.

More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.

And without love everything is nothing.