You are there for your Sisters--the Sisters are not there for you. You must be ready for any sacrifice--so to say, to be eaten up by your Sisters. You may sometimes feel great loneliness--but this is one of the sacrifices you can make for your Sisters. It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others remain in darkness themselves.
(Blessed Mother Teresa, Letter to superiors, Come Be My Light, p 248)
Topics: authority, charity, fraternity, loneliness, service