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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words.

Steve Brunkhorst

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

Unknown

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Robert Frost

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

Margaret Mitchell

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Adlai E. Stevenson

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'

Tom Lehrer

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last

William Morris

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

A drunkard's words are gone when the next day dawns.

Tamil proverb

What is a vow, but an intention spoken out before the world so that the world, in hearing, might take part in aspirations of the willing heart? In our coming here today to join and bless the joy of your becoming wed, may we enter in the truth of the words you've said, "I do."

Maureen Tolman Flannery

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Elise Boulding

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

Victor Hugo

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