Words
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
A picture is a poem without words.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
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.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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