#word

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#words #life

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#chocolate #life #sorry #words #life

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#first time #i #life #looked #my life

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#thoughts #words #experience

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#tragedy #words #life

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#truth #life

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ↗

— Walter Scott

#broken #finds #heart #little #many

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#having #heart #life #things #utter