Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Interpretation
Words have power and can influence change when used thoughtfully.
This quote emphasizes the profound impact that language can have on the world. It suggests that when we choose our words carefully and communicate effectively, we have the ability to inspire, motivate, and bring about positive change in ourselves and others.
In practice
During a motivational speech, I can use this quote to highlight the importance of language in inspiring others.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
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