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Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart,
hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe
long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All these primary impulses,
not easily described in words,
are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truthful words are not beautiful;
beautiful words are not truthful.
Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu
"Pride" is one of those really crazy words,
and such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge, and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you
or have they just been different words on the same old beginning?
Maybe now's the time to establish
a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness is the salve that heals
the wounds of unkind words and acts.
Forgive everyone for every hurt you have ever received -
for your own sake, that you may live in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
-Sheri Rosenthal
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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