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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Sep 25, 2025
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.
Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.
People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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