Quotes About Words

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

In writing, "action" means putting words on paper. "Reflection" means evaluating what we have on paper.

The Lord will always give us words to say, and show us when to say them if we ask Him. Timing is everything.

Lord, I pray for an end to this conflict and a breaking of the hold strife has on us. Take away the hurt and the armor we've put up to protect ourselves. Lift us out of the pit of unforgiveness. Speak through us so that our words reflect Your love, peace, and reconciliation. Tear down this wall between us and teach us how to walk through it. Enable us to rise up from this paralysis and move into the healing and wholeness You have for us.

Who can explain the difference between something chosen by the mind and something decided by the heart? Words are not kelp string. They cannot bind pain into neat packs to be stored away like food in a cache.

Había aprendido a no confiar demasiado en las afirmaciones de los demás, sobre todo si sus palabras les reportaban algún beneficio.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.

To name is to define and shape reality.

I couldn't imagine what it cost him to say these words. I do, I said. And you must forgive me.

I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls. So it was with the words I wrote. They reveled till dawn. xvii.

But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.24

Old Woman I meet you deep inside myself. There in the rootbed of fertility, World without end, as the legend tells it. Under the words you are my silence.

The words I wrote would not be read by unborn eyes. I would become the forgotten wife of a horrid little man lusting for a son.

Her words infuriated me. I wondered for a moment if holding my tongue would help my cause with Mother. Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience? Mother would do what she would do, wouldn't she? I wondered how it was possible I'd found my words out there in the world, but could lose them in the house where I was born.

I wondered how it was possible I had found words out there in the world but could lose them in the house where I was born--Sarah Grimke

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Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato.

REMEMBER When writing up your mental status exam, whenever possible, document your observations with the client's own words.

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words