What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Author: Mother Teresa

Insight: Most of us think peace requires grand gestures or politics. But Mother Teresa nailed something we miss: the person who yells at their family then posts about compassion online isn't changing the world. Peace that doesn't start at home is just performance.

Source: A Life in Pictures, p. 126

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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Mother TeresaA Life in Pictures, p. 126

Insight

Most of us think peace requires grand gestures or politics. But Mother Teresa nailed something we miss: the person who yells at their family then posts about compassion online isn't changing the world. Peace that doesn't start at home is just performance.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun and missionary known for her lifelong dedication to helping the poor and sick in Kolkata, India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that runs hospices and homes for people with terminal illnesses, leprosy, and HIV/AIDS, earning her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

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