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Language is the medium through which we communicate our thoughts and feelings 

• Language: The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. Oxford Dictionary
• Language: The system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other. Merriam Webster
• The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes
• The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Language achieves soul only when it’s applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel. Vanna Bonta
• Communication,  Words,  Listening,  Right speech,  Body language,  Making conversation,  Public speaking,  Writing

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Language is a kind of magic 

• I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. Katherine Dunn

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Language is one of the greatest achievements of the human mind 

• When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. James Earl Jones

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Language is the tool of writers and poets … 

• This is the gift all writers seek–to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. Lawrence Clark Powell
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W.H. Auden
• It’s a writer’s job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. Stephen King
• Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. Jose Saramago
• Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets. Emmauel Mounier
• Writing

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… and can be beautiful and poetic 

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. John Holmes
• I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. Muriel Barbery
• Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf
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Language is full of meaning 

• 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
• Meaning

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Language helps us think and express our ideas 

• We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. Madeleine L’Engle
• Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson
• Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. Mark Amidon
• Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf
• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Humphrey Davy
• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Karl Kraus
• Language is the light of the mind. John Stuart Mill
• Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. Ferdinand de Saussure

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Language can connect and inspire 

• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
• Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death. Lee Iacocca
• The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them — to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others. Vanna Bonta
• Connection,  Inspiration

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Language captures and conveys knowledge 

• The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. Ellen Gilcrist
• The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Knowledge

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Language is the soul of the intellect 

• Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. Charles Scribner, Jr.

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Language aids awareness 

• Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. Alan Moore
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Language helps us find ourselves 

• Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? Melina Marchetta

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Language shapes culture and society, and is shaped by it 

• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. Amy Tan
• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. Rita Mae Brown
• Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Noah Webster
• Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. Angela Carter
• A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation. Thomas Osborne Davis

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Language is the archive of history

• Language is the archives of history. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language is an archaeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. Russell Hoban
• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• History

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Language exists in a wonderful diversity of forms … 

• People need to see that far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions, and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others. Youssou N’Dour
• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. Kofi Annan
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… to be explored through the joys of travel … 

• Travel is a Zen activity that can lift me out of my inner life into engagement with the world around me. There is so much happening— new people, ideas, food, customs, language, sounds, smells—that it literally yanks me from inward to outward focus. Judith Fein
• Personally, I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. Michael Mewshaw
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… and the joy of learning a new language 

• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. Elizabeth Kostova
• No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. Frances Willard
• One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. Frank Smith
• You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. Geoffrey Willans
• To have another language is to possess a second soul. Charlemagne
• Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know. Czech proverb
• The only normal way to begin speaking in a new language is to begin speaking badly!! Greg and Angela Thomson
• Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Learning languages is like learning history from the inside out. It encompasses the battles of ethnicity, religion, compromise, politics. So much can be learned from language because it’s been shaped by history. David Webb
• Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. Martin H. Fischer
• A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellini
• Learn a new language and get a new soul. Czech Proverb
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Language adapts and changes over time 

• For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. T. S. Eliot
• Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Avram Noam Chomsky
• Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. Casey Miller
• For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.
• Adaptability,  Change

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Much of language consists of words … 

• Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. French Proverb
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… while the rest is nonverbal … 

• If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture’s purpose was to disclose them. John Napier

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… communicated through gestures … 

• So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is comprised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication. Garth Stein

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… and the language of the body 

• It’s important to remember that more than 90 percent of what people communicate does not come through words but through nonverbal communication, such as tone of voice and body language. This is where the paradigm shift usually occurs for people. Stephen Covey
• When you and others speak, the meaning you communicate comes from three sources: the words you use, your body language, and how you say your words. Listening with your eyes means you pick up on nonverbal cues that another is communicating through his or her body language. Listening with your heart means you listen for feeling and meaning that is expressed through the tone and inflection of another’s voice. And listening with your ears is simply hearing the actual words that are being said. Stephen Covey
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Some languages are universal and they rarely use words 

• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. Frank Capra 

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Feelings are a universal language … 

• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright

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… a language of the soul 

• Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Real feelings are the language of the soul. I listen. Neale Donald Walsch
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A smile is a universal language 

• A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward
• There are no language barriers when you are smiling. Allen Klein
• Everyone smiles in the same language. Proverb
• There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
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Humor is a universal language 

• Humor is a universal language. Joel Goodman
• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. Yakov Smirnoff
• We need no language to laugh. Janaki Sooriyarachchi
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Tears are a universal language 

• Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. Robert Herrick
• Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire
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Love is a universal language; the language of the heart 

• Love has its own communication. It’s the language of the heart, while it has never been transcribed, has no alphabet, and can’t be heard or spoken by voice, it is used by every human on the planet. It is written on our souls, scripted by the finger of God, and we can hear, understand, and speak it with perfection long before we open our eyes for the first time. Charles Martin
• Love,  The heart

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Stillness is a universal language; the language of God … 

• Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation. Eckhart Tolle
• Silence is the language of God; It is also the language of the heart. Dag Hammerskjold
• Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. Rumi
• Stillness,  God

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… that talks to the soul 

• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor
• Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. Michael Jeffreys

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Action is a universal language; the language of success 

• Action is the universal language of success. Steve Maraboli
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Photos and pictures are a universal language 

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney
• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. Bruno Barbey
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Music is a universal language 

• Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel
• Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
• Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. Keith Richards
• Music is a language, you see, a universal language. Sun Ra  
• Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. Lou Rawls
• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran
• Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course, points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that’s why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that’s kind of the beauty of it. Scott Weiland
• In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. Henry David Thoreau
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Dance is a universal language 

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham
• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul. Gabrielle Roth
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Nature is a universal language and one of the ways God speaks to us 

• Energy is the universal language of Nature. Joey Lawsin
• It is the language of nature to which one has to listen. Vincent van Gogh
• The world is God’s language to us. Simone Weil
• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to… The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. Vincent van Gogh
• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Carl Sandburg
• If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. Adrian Forsyth
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Touch is a universal language 

• Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood
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The eyes speak a universal language 

• The eyes have one language everywhere. George Herbert
• Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. Robert Herrick
• I like you; your eyes are full of language. Anne Sexton

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Money is a universal language with different dialects 

• Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other.  If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language.  You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value.    If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility. Kent Nerburn

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We need to listen more to the language of the heart to know what we really want 

• We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail… We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart. Julia Cameron

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Sometimes true fulfilment cannot be described in words; only the language of the heart 

• Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Language has its shortcomings … 

• It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man. Fulke Greville
• Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends. Edward Hirsch
• For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. Aldous Huxley
• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. William James
• We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Tom Stoppard
• Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being. Kate Miller
• Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert

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Language can never adequately describe emotions and feelings 

• Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. Jeffrey Eugenides
• The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. Jack London
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy
• Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. Radclyffe Hall
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Language, especially the compulsion to name, can get in the way of truly knowing something 

• You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – – that’s what counts. Richard Feynman

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Literature struggles greatly to break free of the confines of language 

• The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. Italo Calvino

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Language can distort and lead to misunderstanding 

• As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other. Marcel Duchamp
• Language is the source of misunderstandings. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Language can get in the way of thought 

• But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell
• For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. Kahlil Gibran

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Language can create illusions that cloud reality 

• Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. George Steiner
• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. Joseph Conrad
• Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. John Langdon
• Language screens reality as a filter on a camera lens screens light waves.
• Illusion,  Reality

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Language can block us from experiencing the wonder of the world directly 

• Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood. Chuck Palahniuk
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Language often conceals truth 

• Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. Dan Brown
• Truth

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Language is often a form disguise 

• Words don’t tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It’s all disguise. It’s all hidden — a secret language. Robert Altman

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Break the spell of your language and allow world to speak to you in new ways 

• We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone – our parents, teachers, analysts – hypnotizes us to “see” the world and construe it in the “right” way.  These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us.  The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence.  Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. Sidney Jourard

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Realise that great power is to be found beyond words; where language ends … 

• There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world. Paulo Coelho
• True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler

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… where deep silence resides 

• Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation. Eckhart Tolle
• Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. Michael Jeffreys
• Silence is the language of God; It is also the language of the heart. Dag Hammerskjold
• Wisdom comes in ten parts, nine of which are silence. The tenth is brevity of language. Scottish proverb
• Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. Rumi
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Become conscious of the language you use for it can reveal much about you 

• Between stimulus and response, you have the freedom to choose. This is your greatest power. One of the most important things you choose is what you say. Your language is a good indicator of how you see yourself. A proactive person uses proactive language—I can, I will, I prefer, etc. A reactive person uses reactive language—I can’t, I must, if only. Stephen Covey
• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. Cesar Chavez
• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. Chinese Proverb
• In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. Plutarch

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You create your reality through the language you use 

• We don’t realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard. Fernando Flores

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Change your language and you can change your life 

• By changing your language, you change your life. Kent Sayre
• Each time you choose to switch your energy from your procrastination self-talk to the language of the producer, you are wiring in a new track of brain cells—a new neural pathway in your brain. After you switch from the old path to the new several times, the new associations will strengthen, becoming easier to initiate, while the old ones will atrophy. Neil Fiore
• Change your language and you change your thoughts. Karl Albrecht

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Use your language in the direction of love and healing … 

• 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
• Love,  Healing

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… leaving mean and unkind things unsaid 

• What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none. Maimonides
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• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound
• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice. Mark Twain
• There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. William Osler
• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats
• The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. George Orwell
• Simplicity,  Clarity

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• All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson
• The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. Carol Ann Duffy
• Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it’s the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it’s a half- remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot. Stephen Fry
• Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Roland Barthes
• Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. Julia Penelope
• The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas
• The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.  Derek Walcott
• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. George Orwell
• Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
• Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen
• Conduct is more convincing than language. John Woolman
• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote. Samuel Johnson
• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise – that which is common to you, me and everybody. Thomas Ernest Hulme
• Language is memory and metaphor. Storm Jameson
• Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. George Crane

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• Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt. J.K. Rowling
• By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin
• Chinese is a language of fifteen thousand words and none of them in English.
• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Robert Charles Benchley
• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Benjamin Franklin
• I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand. Sir Edward Appleton
• I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Jane Wagner
• I speak twelve languages. English is the bestest.
• I speak two languages, Body and English. Mae West
• I would love to speak a foreign language, but I can’t; so I grew hair under my arms instead. Sue Kolinsky
• If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Doug Larson
• If you can speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you’re bilingual.  If you can speak only one language you’re an American.
• In English every word can be verbed. Alan J. Perlis
• In general, every country has the language it deserves. Jorge Luis Borges
• In the language of flowers, the yellow rose means friendship, the red rose means love, and the orchid means business. E.C.McKenzie
• It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. Franklin P. Jones
• It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear” Douglas Adams
• Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
• Meow” means “woof” in cat.” George Carlin
• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn
• Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets. Eddy Peters
• Our language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. Gustav White
• Rhetoric: Language in a dress suit.
• Slang: Language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands and goes to work.
• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. Peter Finley Dunne
• That woman speaks eight languages and can’t say no in any of them. Dorothy Parker
• The mediocrity of his thinking is concealed by the majesty of his language. Aneurin Bevan
• Verbing weirds language. Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
• Ways to Relieve Stress #10. Make up a language and ask people for directions. Stewart Francis
• When a German dives into a sentence, you won’t see him again until he emerges at the other end with the verb between his teeth. Mark Twain

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