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What does it mean?
Brief kind words can have lasting positive effects on others long after they are spoken.
In plain terms
Kind words echo forever.
What can you take from it?
Speak kindly since your words last longer than you think.

Where it applies

  • daily conversation
  • criticism
  • praise

Putting it to work

  • offer compliments
  • speak gently
  • say thanks

Questions to consider

  • What words did someone say that stayed with you?
  • How will you speak today?

Another view

Words can also harm if spoken without care.

More from Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi)

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  3. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

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