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• Impeccable:  In accordance with the highest standards; faultless. Oxford Dictionary
• Impeccable:  Perfect, with no problems or bad parts. Cambridge University
• Impeccable:  Faultless; flawless; irreproachable. Dictionary.com
• Right speech,  Right-action,  Honesty,  Integrity,  Words,  Language,  Lying,  Deceit

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• “Your word” is all you say and write.  Don Miguel Ruiz

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Your word has immense power

• A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood
• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe… Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. Charles Capps
• Such simple words! But words are mighty things; They cast us down, or lift us up to rest; They charm and strengthen, till our angel sings The last of all the life-songs, and the best. Sarah Doudney
• The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Sonia Choquette
• Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. Patrick Rothfuss
• Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know….Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It’s the bright red warning flag of danger–and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace. Ani DiFranco
• Words,  Power

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Your words contain the power to create ….

• Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. Don Miguel Ruiz
• The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. Charles Fillmore
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… the power to heal, encourage and inspire …

• One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul. Therese of Lisieux
• So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort. Florence Littauer
• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
• Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus
• Healing,  Encouragement,  Inspiration

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… the power to create connection and convey love

• Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone’s eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too. Gladys Taber
• Desires and words go hand in hand … they are moved by the same intention to join together, to communicate, to establish bridges between people, whether they are spoken or written. Laura Esquivel
• In the silence of night, I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. Judy Garland
• Connection,  Love

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Your words can have huge consequence for your life …

• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things—a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a news stand—I am tempted to think …there are no little things. Bruce Barton
• We cannot afford to underestimate the importance and power of our words. Jell Olson
• Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and affairs. Florence Scovel Shinn
• Man can change his conditions by changing his words. Florence Scovel Shinn
• Never underestimate the power of words. You make your world with your words. Dee Rimmer
• The words you speak become the house you live in. Hafez
• Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and affairs. Florence Scovel Shinn
• Consequences,  Choices,  Karma

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… and can have a great effect on the lives of others too

• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha
• Likewise, the words you speak (or write) are also consciously chosen. Like actions, they have an impact on your life and the lives of those you contact. Jim M. Allen
• One word can give comfort and confidence, destroy doubt, help someone avoid a mistake, reconcile a conflict, or open the door to liberation. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair… Sigmund Freud

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Your words can be your power and your weakness …

• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Bettie Eadie
• Strength,  Weakness

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… for your words always come back to you

• Life is a game of boomerangs in which your thoughts, deeds and words return to you.
• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract. Florence Scovel Shinn
• Every word that you express will return to you. Christian Larson
• Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies which, in turn, attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies. Norma J. Milanovich
• Karma

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Your words can be a potent power for both good and bad

• All the magic you possess is based on your word. Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. Manly Hall
• Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare
• When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. Euripides
• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe… Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. Charles Capps
• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha
• Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you. Natsuki Takaya

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Your words can heal or harm

• Our words have power. Power to hurt and power to heal. Gena Livings
• Words can help, words can heal…they can also hurt, and can also kill. Tim Walters
• Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts. Tim Minchin
• 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. Yehuda Berg
• For each person there is a sentence–a series of words–which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you’re lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second. Philip K. Dick
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. Eric Idle
• Little words hurt big ideas. Howard W. Newton
• There’s small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged. Benjamin Franklin
• Words are very unnecessary, They can only do harm. Depeche Mode
• Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal.
• Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. Yehuda Berg
• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe… Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. Charles Capps
• Healing,  Abuse

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Your words can free or enslave

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. Ralph Ellison
• The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. One edge is the misuse of the word, which creates a living hell. The other edge is the impeccability of the word, which will only create beauty, love, and heaven on earth. Depending upon how it is used, the word can set you free, or it can enslave you even more than you know. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Freedom,  Slavery

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Your words can be potent weapons that do immense harm …

• Word — that invisible dagger. Emil Cioran
• A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling. Proverb
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. Robert Burton
• There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. Frederika Bremer
• There is a weird power in a spoken word. . . . And a word carries far–very far–deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Joseph Conrad
• Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. Sidney Madwed
• Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man’s word. Platen
• My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets — no, they’re little gifts, containing meanings! Philip Roth
• Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Josef Stalin
• It is with a word as with an arrow — once let it loose and it does not return.
• Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. Pearl Strachan Hurd
• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. Manly Hall
• A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not. African Proverb
• A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. William Shakespeare
• He was a writer and words were his weapons. Christopher Moore
• It doesn’t matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don’t say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can’t get through. Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
• The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. Japanese Prover
• The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood. Gautama Buddha
• The tongue pierces deeper than the spear. Hazrat Ali

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… more harm even than physical violence

• There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. Frederika Bremer
• Harsh words can hurt a person more than physical pain.
• Remember that cruel words deeply hurt. Remember that loving words quickly heal.  Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Words can cause a whole world of trouble

• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. Edmund Burke

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Always choose your words consciously …

• Likewise, the words you speak (or write) are also consciously chosen. Like actions, they have an impact on your life and the lives of those you contact. Jim M. Allen
• Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us. Tony Robbins
• The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. Sonia Choquette
• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha
• Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely. Tony Robbins
• You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. Michael Beckwith
• We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. Sogyal Rinpoche
• Living consciously,  Awareness,  Choice

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… for you are responsible for your every word

• I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Take responsibility

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Be impeccable with your word …

• Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz

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… by not using your word against yourself or others

• Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Now let us see what the word impeccability means. Impeccability means “without sin.” Impeccable comes from the Latin pecatus, which means “sin.” The im in impeccable means “without,” so impeccable means “without sin.” Religions talk about sin and sinners, but let’s understand what it really means to sin. A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself. Don Miguel Ruiz

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Choose your words with care and love

• Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. Andrew Alden
• Careful with Fire, is good advice we know. Careful with Words, is ten times doubly so. William Carleton
• Taste your words before you spit them out. You might need to eat them later. Rain Bojangles
• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. Napoleon Hill
• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha
• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. Horace
• Respect for the word – to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth – is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution. Dag Hammarskjold
• Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. Marcus Aurelius
• If only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak. Shaun Shane
• Caring,  Love

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Use your words be in the direction of love and truth

• Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Use the word in the correct way. Use the word to share your love. Use white magic, beginning with yourself. Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself. Use the word to break all those teeny, tiny agreements that make you suffer. Don Miguel Ruiz
• The best way to maintain a higher vibration is to make every thought and word you use or listen to as loving and nurturing as possible. Sonia Choquette
• The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty- four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are – to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive – to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love. Daphne Rose Kingma
• A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Winston Churchill
• People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting? Morgan Brittany
• Love,  Truth,  Honesty

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Use the power of your word constructively

• We must use the power of our words constructively. Stella Terrill Mann

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Use only words that serve you and others

• Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely. Robert G. Allen

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Use words as if they were limited and precious

• How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day? Jerry Spinelli
• The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Let your words build up, encourage and inspire

• Every time words are spoken, something is created. Be conscious of what you say and how you say it. Use words that build up, appreciate, encourage and inspire. Lucy MacDonald
• A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after a success.
• I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. Steve Maraboli
• If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen. Loretta Gizartis
• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free-and worth a fortune. Sam Walton
• One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul. Therese of Lisieux
• Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken a word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make- up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success. George Matthew Adams
• May your words build up not tear down, bless rather than curse, encourage not discourage. Gena Livings
• So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort. Florence Littauer
• When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Our words have power. Power to hurt and power to heal. Angry words spill from an angry heart. A loving person speaks gracious words of love, compassion and goodness. May your words build up not tear down, bless rather than curse, encourage not discourage. Gena Livings
• Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. Gary Smalley
• Encouragement,  Inspiration

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Let your words be kind …

• For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. Audrey Hepburn
• Our words should be purrs instead of hisses. Kathrine Palmer Peterson
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. it’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. Leo Buscaglia
• Fair words never hurt the tongue. George Chapman
• You can stroke people with words. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Write kind words in marble, insults in sand. Iranian proverb
• Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Kind speech is not the usual sense of kindness. It can appear in various ways, but we should remember that it must constantly be based on compassion. Compassion is always giving somebody support or help or a chance to grow. Katagiri Roshi
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… for kind words spread love …

• One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese proverb
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
• Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love. Lao Tzu
• One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese Proverb

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… spreading happiness and blessings…

• Try to make at least one person happy every day. … If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! Lawrence G. Lovasik
• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. Dale Carnegie
• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Kind words are jewels that live in the heart and soul and remain as blessed memories years after they have been spoken. Marvea Johnson
• Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Blaise Pascal
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… healing wounds …

• The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. Sarah Fielding
• Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:23-25
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… accomplishing miracles

• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt
• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal
• When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. Buddha
• Life as a miracle

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Kind words are easy to speak but never wasted

• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps
• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearl slipping from a broken string. George Prentice
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

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Let your words be gentle

• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. Sir John Vanbrugh
• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt
• Soft words are hard arguments. Thomas Fuller
• Soft words win hard hearts. Proverb
• Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb
• One mild word … will quench more heat than a bucket of water. John Thornton
• Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. W. Gladden
• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:1
• A gentle word opens an iron gate. Bulgarian Proverb
• When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. John Dryden
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Let your words come from a place of stillness

• Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. Eckhart Tolle
• Stillness,  Calmness,  Equanimity

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Let your words say what you really mean

• Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words. S. Lewis

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Let your words be truthful, not false

• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
• All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Robert South
• The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word…Only the truth will set us free. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Truth,  Honesty,  Lying

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Let your words be positively charged

• Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words. John C. Maxwell
• Speech is one of the most powerful gifts the human person possesses, and like most of our gifts it can be used positively, to raise people up, or negatively, to pull people down. Words are either positively or negatively charged. Matthew Kelly
• The words shared don’t matter as much as the vibration they come from. Elina St-Onge
• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Let your words instil peace

• Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. Buddha
• Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace. The Dhammapada
• Saturate your thoughts with peaceful experiences, peaceful words and ideas, and ultimately you will have a storehouse of peace- producing experiences to which you may turn for refreshment and renewal of your spirit. Norman Vincent Peale
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Let your words be from the heart

• Words spoken from the mind may be interesting, perhaps stimulating and even engaging but words spoken from the heart are invariably profound, gently moving and often transforming. Robert Beno
• Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. Kathleen Pedersen
• Heart

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Let your words be good and pure

• Good words are worth much, and cost little. George Herbert
• Purity is the soul’s birthright. Let thoughts, words and actions be filled with this. Brahma Kumaris
• Goodness,  Purity

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Let your words contain faith; not fear

• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe… Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. Charles Capps
• Faith,  Fear

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Let your words be infused with humour

• Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. Alfred E. Smith
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Let your speech be mindful and pure

• Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus
• Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. Buddha
• The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. Buddha
• Right Speech has four parts:   Abstain from false speech; do not tell lies or deceive.  2.  Do not slander others or speak in a way that causes disharmony or enmity. 3.  Abstain from rude, impolite or abusive language. 4.  Do not indulge in idle talk or gossip.   Pali Canon
• Right Speech means using communication as a way to further our understanding of ourselves and others and as a way to develop insight. Taitaku Patricia Phelan
• Mindfulness,  Awareness,  Purity

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Be true to your word

• An honest man’s word is as good as his bond. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such. John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
• I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character – not wealth or power or position – is of supreme worth.  D. Rockefeller
• Hold firmly to your word. Maimonides
• If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good. Bill McCartney
• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self- respect. Marcus Aurelius
• When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word. Paulo Coelho
• In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. Chuck Palahniuk
• Oaths are but words, and words but wind. Samuel Butler
• One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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Measure the impeccability of your words by your level of love

• You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Love

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Don’t leave words of love unspoken

• Many times in life I’ve regretted the things I’ve said without thinking. But I’ve never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. Lisa Kleypas
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Before saying something, ask yourself if you’d be prepared to write it and sign it

• Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
• If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it. Earl Wilson
• Assume everything you say about another, they can overhear; now speak accordingly. Stephen Covey

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Before saying it, ask yourself if it is necessary, true and kind

• Before you speak, think – Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence? Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind. Buddha

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Speak the truth …

• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius
• For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett
• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. Charles Edward Montague
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
• Honesty,  Integrity

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… but always do so with the right intent …

• A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake
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… and always speak it kindly

• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. Arthur Dobrin
• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. Richard J. Needham

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Speak of what is good about people

• Speaking with words that bring about harmony consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people, this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! Jean-Yves Leloup
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Talk to yourself with words of support and affirmation …

• Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now. Louise L. Hay
• There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself. Brian Andreas
• Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our “feel good” hormones flow. Positive self- talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words. Ruth Fishel
• Every thought you think and every word you say is an affirmation. Jack Canfield
• I AM – the two most powerful words in the world, for whatever we put after them becomes our reality. Susan Howson
• The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition – the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself. Napoleon Hill
• These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. Claude M. Bristol
• We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. Jane Fonda
• Self-love, Affirmation,  Self-talk

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… instead of using the word against yourself

• We talk to ourselves constantly and most of the time we say things like, “Oh, I look fat, I look ugly. I’m getting old, I’m losing my hair. I’m stupid, I never understand anything. I will never be good enough, and I’m never going to be perfect.” Do you see how we use the word against ourselves? Don Miguel Ruiz
• Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. Victoria Moran

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Being impeccable with your word brings wonderful rewards

• If you understand the first agreement, be impeccable with your word, you begin to see all the changes that can happen in your life. Changes first in the way you deal with yourself, and later in the way you deal with other people, especially those you love the most. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love. Don Miguel Ruiz
• The more impeccable your word, the more you respect and love yourself. Don Miguel Ruiz

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Avoid using the word to spread poison, blame and fear

• The power of the word is completely misused in hell. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison — to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate. Don Miguel Ruiz
• We use the word to create hate between different races, between different people, between families, between nations. We misuse the word so often, and this misuse is how we create and perpetuate the dream of hell. Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt. Don Miguel Ruiz
• You can’t fight fire with fire. Don’t spew hostile words at those who spew them at you.  Tone it down and replace the stink of confrontation with the fragrance of resolution. The louder the opposition wants to yell, the calmer and more confidently you need to speak.  Keep your composure; don’t let them get to you.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath. Gautama Buddha
• To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution. Dag Hammarskjold
• One should be cautions not to speak anything that hurts others. Such kind of speech never helps but always brings destruction. Rig Veda
• Blame,  Fear

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Avoid using careless words

• That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. Arundhati Roy

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Avoid using words that criticise and tear down …

• Speaking with words that bring about harmony consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people, this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! Jean-Yves Leloup
• Judgement,  Criticism

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… especially when you speak to children

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self- worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir
• It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult… choose your words wisely.
• The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. Gary Smalley
• Raising children

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Avoid using the word to gossip

• Gossip is black magic at its very worst because it is pure poison. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Richard Steele
• If something uncharitable is said in your presence, either speak in favor of the absent, or withdraw, or, if possible, stop the conversation. John Vianney
• If you have nothing nice to say about a person . . . don’t say it.
• Gossip is black magic at its very worst because it is pure poison. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Gossip

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Avoid shouting and your words are more likely to be heard

• We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. Richard M. Nixon

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Don’t say it when you’re angry

• Don’t mix bad words with your bad mood. You’ll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you’ll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke. Nishan Panwar
• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
• Anger

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Leave unkind words unsaid …

• The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Winston Churchill
• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. Orson Rega Card
• The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. Elizabeth Gilbert
• What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none. Maimonides

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… for harsh words can never be recalled …

• Don’t mix bad words with your bad mood. You’ll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you’ll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke. Nishan Panwar
• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace
• It is easier to swallow angry words than to have to eat them.
• Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. Chinese Proverb
• Once a word has been spoken, it cannot be recalled. Wentworth Roscommon
• Once you have spoken, even the swiftest horse cannot retract your words. Chinese proverb
• A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. Spanish Proverb
• The spoken word is like a sped arrow that cannot be recalled. Lord Mason
• When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken, you reign over it. Arabian proverb
• Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. Jodi Picoult
• Words once spoke can never be recalled. Wentworth Dillon
• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Baltasar Gracian
• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. Earl of Roscommon
• It is with a word as with an arrow — once let it loose and it does not return.
• A word uttered cannot be taken back. African Proverb

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… and you’re only a slave of the words you let slip out

• A person is master to those words they don’t say, and slave to the ones they do. John Reyes
• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill

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Saying what is right requires active listening

• Deep listening is the foundation of Right Speech. If we cannot listen mindfully, we cannot practice Right Speech. No matter what we say, it will not be mindful, because we’ll be speaking only our own ideas and not in response to the other person. Thich Nhat Hanh
• You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
• Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
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Don’t feel compelled to natter away just for the sake of it

• A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say. Kurt Vonnegut
• The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. Frank M. Garafola
• The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind. Mike Bell
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. Maurice Switzer
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

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Never miss a good chance to shut up

• The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
• Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers
• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. Orson Rega Card
• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Robert Charles Benchley
• Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence. English Proverb
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot
• If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. Austin O’Malley
• Be careful with your words. Once they’re said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten. Hussein Nishah
• A person is master to those words they don’t say, and slave to the ones they do. John Reyes

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing

• If you have nothing to say, say nothing. Mark Twain
• Isn’t it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now? Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
• There’s no point barking when you don’t have anything to say. Ritu Ghatourey
• Idle chatter leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23b

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Silence at the right time can be better than any speech

• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch
• Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence? Robert Brault
• Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence. Spanish Proverb
• Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence. Publilius Syrus
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
• Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. We should all learn just to be quiet at times. Hussein Nishah

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• Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler
• The tongue weighs practically nothing…but few people can hold it.
• A narrow mind is usually accompanied by a wide mouth.
• Taste your words before you spit them out. You might need to eat them later. Rain Bojangles
• If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. George Barzan

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