Our Words Quotes - Page 9

• All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fall, Writing, Mind

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Example, Deeds, Our Actions

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
  And our seeking is His seeking
  And our words are His words...
  We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
  Sitting by His side, we ask:
  'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

  Rumi

  Life And Love, Shadow, Sides

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• The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Lines, Our Actions

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• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

  Wilkie Collins

  Giants, Injury, Dwarfs

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.45, e-artnow sro

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• Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere;
  Let us take long walks in the open air...
  Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
  Let us indulge in games...
  Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words,
  and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

  Robert Linssen

  Simple, Garden, Lakes

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• What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Writing, Skeletons, Dust

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• Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Healing, Opportunity

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when we’re staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when we’re feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we don’t have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Healing, Blessing, Talking

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Believe That You Can: Moving with Faith and Tenacity to the Dream God Has Given You”, p.195, Charisma Media

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• Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Voice, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, World, Firsts

  Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

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• If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

  James Lee Burke

  Promise, Break, Occasional

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

  Shawn Anderson

  Choices, Get Better, Quality

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• ...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

  Richard Hugo

  Selfish, Real, Emotional

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• As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Desire, Patient

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Play, Roots

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Knowing, Clay, Deeds

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• In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

  Declan Donnellan

  Truth, Tools, May

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• Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real trust in God, and you will be helped in your various necessities... Not in circumstances, not in natural prospects, not in former donors, but solely in God. This is just that which brings the blessing. If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. On the other hand, if our trust in the Lord is real, help will surely come.

  George Muller

  Real, Blessing, Men

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• But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

  Marcel Proust

  Octopus, Sound, Body

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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  When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

  Audre Lorde

  Strong Women, Honesty, Silence

  Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Positive, Strength, Yoga

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