#words

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change #feel #power #speaking #true

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? ↗

— James Salter

#literature #reading #words #change

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#words #change

The thing he said aloud did not succeed. ↗

— Tony Burgess

#speech #talking #words #change

Nothing in this world is wrong, Unless, YOU consider it Wrong! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#inspirational #lessons-for-man #life-changing #life-lessons #philosophy

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be. ↗

— Glenda Millard

#happy #head #heart #rules #sad

From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed. ↗

— Justina Chen

#emotional-wounds #verbal-abuse #words #beauty

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience

One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change #words #change

A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation. ↗

— Carol Morgan

#placement-of-words #writing #change