Words
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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.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor — no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Good words cool more than cold water.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.