Remember that every single word you say to someone will either curse them or bless them.
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The Bible will not make transformation dependent on cleverness at all, but in one of God’s favorite and most effective hiding places—humility.
Overexplanation separates us from astonishment.
What the artist wishes to do—as far as you are concerned—is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.
But if you don’t write of things deep in your own heart,
What’s the use of churning out so many words?
Actually one decides one’s life by responding to a word that is not well defined, easily explicable, safely accounted for. One decides to love in the face of an unaccountable void, and from the void comes an unaccountable truth. By this truth one’s existence is sustained in peace—until the truth is too firmly grasped and too clearly accounted for. Then one is relying on words—i.e., on his own understanding and his own ingenuity in interpreting existence and its “signs.” Then one is lost—has to be found once again in the patient Void.
Silence is the limit of our world of description or language. Silence is silence and completely different from any kind of language.
When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
The stars sing an anthem of glory
I cannot put into speech.
Among angels there is no place for outward, but only for inward speech.
Three Tests
When I want to speak let me think first.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
If not, let it be left unsaid.