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Robert Fulghum, fully Robert Lee Fulghum
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Walter Raleigh, fully Sir Walter Raleigh
Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.
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T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
Time present and time past are both perhaps time future. And time future contained in the time passed. If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining of a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been point to one end which is always present. Foot falls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened to the rose garden. My words echo in your mind.
Future | Memory | Mind | Past | Present | Speculation | Time | Words | World |
Though “the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of the assemblies,” yet sure their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and, swore himself whist he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.
Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than the good by his correction.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: words, without thoughts, never to heaven go!
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Almost all the trouble in the world is created by things people think, say and write. Words of anger, malice, hatred, resentment, jealously, like physical blows, cause people to hit back. Over-bearing, demanding words create determined resistance. And the attitudes of mind back of them, even though we do not speak the words, are sensed by others. For the telepathic power of thought is no longer merely a theory. Thoughts are things.
Anger | Cause | Malice | Mind | People | Power | Resentment | Thought | Words | World | Trouble | Thought |
In all the possibility of things there is and can be but one happiness and one misery. The one misery is nature and creature left to itself, the one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature. This is the true meaning of the words of Our Lord: There is but one that is good, and that is God.
God | Good | Life | Life | Light | Lord | Meaning | Nature | Spirit | Words | Happiness |
I believe that the greater part of man’s existence is in the spirit realm, the worlds of the unseen and eternal. It is the larger and purer part of life that makes life full and whole and makes man “one” with all things.... Man has lost his connection to that world and thus his communication and power. This world of spirit cannot be understood through the words and concepts of man, nor can it be understood by logical thought. It can only be entered through the heart and pure mind.
Eternal | Existence | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Power | Spirit | Thought | Words | World |