The Daily Optimist
January 5  ·  Kindness

Did Mother Teresa Have a Cat?

Did Mother Teresa have a cat?
— Mother Teresa
From Travis's 2016 curiosity journal

Mother Teresa owned two saris, a pair of sandals, a metal bucket, and a bar of soap. That was it. Everything she had, she gave away. She once said, 'I have found the paradox: if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.' She had no cat. She had no extra anything. And she said she had never felt more free.

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