Words
(page 5)
Good words cool more than cold water.
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.
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.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge — which is mathematical, essentially — can have a playful visual element to it.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
