Mother Teresa

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger , a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." - Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was saying that in poorer countries she found it easier to minister to the people in need than to minister to the needs of people in rich countries. Feeding and healing people physically is much simpler than feeding and healing people spiritually and emotionally.
In the movie Leap Year, there is one line the main character says, something to the effect of: I had everything I wanted, but nothing I needed. As cheesy as that may sound, I think it speaks to what Mother Teresa was saying. Nowadays, people in rich countries accomplish and achieve so much, but they still feel empty because they do not have people to share their success and happiness with. People forget that material success is not the same as happiness. And that, Mother Teresa says, is far harder to help than nursing a physically malnurished man.  How do you take a lonely man and suddenly fill his life with loved ones? You can love that person, but you cannot make other people love him or her. You cannot just hand a person happiness. That is why lonliness is the greatest poverty of rich countries.