Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Interpretation
Words have the power to influence and affect humanity positively or negatively.
This quote emphasizes the immense power that words hold in shaping our reality and the feelings of others. Yehuda Berg suggests that we have a choice in how we use this force—either to uplift and encourage or to bring about harm and despair, highlighting the responsibility that comes with our words and the impact they can have on ourselves and those around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one might say, 'Remember, words are a powerful force; choose them wisely.'
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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