“God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.” SometimesMatterGodSpeakLanguageHurtVulnerableMessCherishDisappointedWhat Matters Book:The Joyful Journey Source: The Joyful Journey
“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.” WritingWarBeautifulDesireLanguageHurtCompassionHorrorSuicideSoldierIraqTerrorTraumaDelicateBulletsPreciseBladesSkullsShatteredIraq WarBrianBombersTurnerSuicide Bombers Author:Andrew Himes
“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.” NeedsMomentsFactsCultureSpeakLanguageHurtLossTroubleGainsSpeciesPoetry IsCelebrationEndangered Species Author:Erica Jong
“I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.” PeopleTryingLongCharacterShowsLanguageStuffHurtLong TimeNflVocabularyLong Time AgoMachoBad Language Book:More than just a game Source: More than just a game
“My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.” MatterLanguageHurtEnglish LanguageEnglishmenCountrymen Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.” PeopleWayWantKindUseFeelingsCertainCultureLanguageHurtRepressionSexuallyOutlaw Author:David Duchovny
“I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.” ThinkingWaySometimesDesireLanguageHurtFailingSucceedCommunicateViolentTriumphIt HurtsSometimes It Hurts Author:Claudia Rankine