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.
These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
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