Words
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Good words cool more than cold water.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, "If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?" and he answered me with two words: "A pencil". Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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