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“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”

Thinking Way Believe Can Do Hurt Powerful Stones Sticks Don't Believe Wounds Damage Axioms Really Powerful Sticks And Stones

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.”

Knows Feels Mean Ends Sometimes Enemy My Friends Stones Rose Stranger Wounds Means To An End

Author:Ben Harper

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.”

Doe Shows Body Running Dangerous Conscience Stones Wounds Bullets Exhausting Brake Stags

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.”

Feelings Language Causes Consciousness Information Aspect Stones Guides Wounds Caress

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths”

Giving Stones Wounds Block Setback Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Book:Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.”

Ifs Use Hurt Weapons Stones Claims Sticks Wounds Sticks And Stones

Author:Neil Gaiman

“He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.”

Ifs Way Trying Sometimes Order Wonder Stones Tests Wounds Wounded Sometimes I Wonder

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.”

“In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.”

May Home Hands Fall Results Missing Concerned Stones Intention Blow Strikes Wounds Thrown Roof Tiles

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.”

May Hurt Break Broken Stones Stronger Sticks Bones Decades Wounds Grind Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.”

Source: The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story