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• Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

  Elizabeth Price Foley

  Home, Garden, Land

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• Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

  Seneca the Younger

  Helping, Should, Aim

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• Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

  LeBron James

  Hurtful, Toothpaste, Tubes

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• We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

  Henri Nouwen

  Silence, Benefits, Asks

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• As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

  Henri Nouwen (2009). “Home Tonight: Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son”, p.73, Image

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• It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Smell, Tools, Mud

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• I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.

  Temple Grandin

  Art, Jobs, Drama

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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

  David Levithan

  Together, Watches, Ongoing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Honesty, Teaching

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• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

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• The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Lasts, Firsts

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• Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

  Sergey Kirov

  Winning, Example, Deeds

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• When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.

  Pascal Mercier

  Thinking, Soul, Glimpse

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon”

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• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Jobs, Reality, Creating

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Responsibility, Exercise

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• I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Mouths, Remember

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Communication, Our Actions, Should

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• If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

  T. S. Eliot

  Understanding, Deeds, Intention

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.394, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Ideas, Tasks

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• Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Taken, Serious Things

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• Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Numbers, Soul

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• Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be more spiritual than an officer. Spirituality is determined by personal outlook and priorities. It is evident in our words and actions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Teacher, Priorities

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, People, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.350, Hachette UK

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