"People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day."

Sher, Barbara on regret
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."

France, Anatole on words
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings."

Fripp, Patricia on words
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"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

Glasgow, Ellen on words   

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words   

"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

Gracian, Baltasar on words   

"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words   

"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

Chase, Stuart on words
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"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."

Chazal, Malcolm De on words   

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Coolidge, Calvin on words
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."

Conrad, Joseph on words
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"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable."

Daumal, Rene on words   

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

Dick, Philip K. on words
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"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day."

Dickinson, Emily on words
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"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

Eliot, George on words
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"Words from the thread on which we string our experiences."

Huxley, Aldous on words   

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."

Hurd, Pearl Strachan on words   

"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."

Kraus, Karl on words   

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Dyer, Wayne on regret
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"Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste."

L'Chiam on words   

"What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!"

Kirchenbaum on words   

"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on words
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"A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

Conrad, Joseph on words   

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on words
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"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America."

Jordan, June on words
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."

Idle, Eric on words
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"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

Ibsen, Henrik on words
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"Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience."

Huxley, Julian S. on words   

"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world."

Hubbard, Ruth on words   

"Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs."

Dickens, Charles on regret   

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him."

Beecher, Henry Ward on attitude
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"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!"

Armstrong, Louis on attitude
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"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."

Bennett, William John on attitude
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"To give your best is to receive the best."

Holliwell, Raymond on success   

"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude."

Holliwell, Raymond on simplicity
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"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."

Holliwell, Raymond on faith
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