An orange megaphone holds a bunch of small white daisies against a green background.

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Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The effort needed to speak kindly is contrasted with the length of its effect. A brief remark can remain with someone long after the conversation ends. The echo makes that influence feel larger than the original sound, giving ordinary words a lasting importance that their simplicity might conceal.

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