The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
Interpretation
Words can hurt deeply, despite being intangible.
This quote highlights the powerful impact of words, which, although they are not physically substantial, can cause significant emotional harm. It serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have in our communication, emphasizing that spoken expressions can lead to genuine heartache and pain in relationships.
In practice
A reminder for students before giving their speech in class.
But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home
In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
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