#word

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#memories #words #life

This life will hit you--hard. In the face! It'll wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you, is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. ↗

— Sarah Kay poet

#life

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live. ↗

— Tabitha Robin

#life #live #opportunity #salvation #spiritual

The yogi sages say that all the pain of human life is caused by words, as is all the joy ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

A word, once it has left your mouth, it cannot be uncalled. It cannot be nullified. People don’t understand how strongly they’re tied down because of it. But they continue to use that lock. Words are something living and sometimes, it can even tie down a person’s life. ↗

— xxxholic

#life

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#last-words #life

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#endless #kind-words #kindness #love #words

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#love