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“Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.”

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Author:Jean Dubuffet

“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

“Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.”

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Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.”

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Author:Carol Shields

“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.”

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Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.”

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Book:The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity

Source: The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity

“I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.”

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Author:Pattiann Rogers

“Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.”

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Author:Erica Jong