Words Quotes

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so, than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Action is more generally understood than words.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.