Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
C.S. Lewis
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
MOTHER TERESA Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
LEROY BROWNLOW Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
JAVAN “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
ASHISH KUMAR Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe...
UNKNOWN Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY When you find out why your heart keeps hurting you with silence, you'll find out why others hurt you...
SUSIE L HILL Harsh words can inflict wounds.
But silence can shatter a heart.
JOHN B. BEJO No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Making a journey into C.S. Lewis' quotes is like a journey into the most beautiful floral valley whi...
JOEY TALLADINO Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?
CRAIG GROESCHEL The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. PACKER You might not realize it but your silence will always affect people even more than your words do.
ANDONI GARCIA People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
SHARON ANTHONY BOWER Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. Then...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever
MUNIA KHAN Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
SHANNON L. ALDER It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bo...
LAUREN OLIVER Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICIA FRIPP Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s hea...
STEPHEN KING Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
JENNIFER DONNELLY When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
JOHN BUNYAN He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD Don't let thoughts from your mind block feelings from your heart.
CJ HECK you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B. Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself
TY GRAY Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
MISCHA TEMAUL In any heartfelt relations if others don't understand your silence then they certainly cannot unders...
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Your silence is a better reply than your words to those who don’t deserve you.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) If it breaks your heart, you'll always get a new start.
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings ...
KIM KI-DUK If someone breaks your best friend's heart, you should break their face
ABBY SHANLEY They know your face, but not your mind.
They understand your words, but not your heart.
Th...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feel...
EZRA TAFT BENSON If heart really breaks apart after getting hurt, my heart must be in powder form by now.
HARSH MAURYA Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Cho...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it bre...
LOUISE SUGGS How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential uttera...
ANNE AUSTIN What your enemies know can hurt you,
but what your friends know can destroy you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Words can kill few People,
But silence can kill everyone
AANCHAL BHATEJA A heart-rending thing has happened. I cannot find any words to express my feelings.
AKIRA NAKAGAWA Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of ...
GIOTTO DI BONDONE Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW You can transplant your heart but not your soul.
KOWSALAPATHY Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the ...
RUTH BELL GRAHAM If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will...
MAXWELL ANDERSON Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of sil...
WAYNE DYER “Sharing your heart with the one you love, words might not to be said, yet still felt. The heart h...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Hundreds of harsh words dosen't give pain. But, the silence of a loving heart gives more pain
VINAYAN Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.
SOMYA KEDIA As I see it, pathos brings a reader to view your open heart behind a glass window of words; the word...
SAM DAVIES Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. ...
OG MANDINO It's not about the words that come out of your mouth. It's about the words that come out of your hea...
LOTUS LOVE You can know something in your head but not in your heart.
ALAN D. WOLFELT Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, Distrust.If one breaks in your heart the other must.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
PAWAN MISHRA When it comes to affairs of love and hurt, you have to wait for your heart to learn what your head a...
NEIL GAIMAN Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
CARL WHITE Miracles happen when you start following your heart, not mind." Your mind can play tricks but heart ...
ARVIND MEHTA Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Live your life with your heart, no hate, no regrets only love, sometimes your mind will fight it, te...
PAUL NEWTON Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be for...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks r...
ANDREW HARVEY You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.
MARILYN PETERSON Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we h...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO Feelings are great, and they have a purpose, but it’s certainly not to guide your life. Whoever sa...
JOSH HATCHER Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons,...
VIOLET HABERDASHER If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart brea...
ANDREW HARVEY One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens.
MARC SECCHIA Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
STEPHEN D'MELLO Some friends will try to do things to hurt you. Your job is not letting it get to your heart.
TROY GATHERS when a guy breaks your heart send him a picture of you crying it will make him feel bad
DALLY SALAD real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes silent is more vocal than your words but merely to those who snoop to you thru heart.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal ...
RAOUF AYOUB How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let to...
STEVE MARABOLI What if you could let go of all types of resentments and feelings of lack and feelings of loss and e...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky...
AUDREY HEPBURN Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN "This Christmas let those true feelings of the Savior’s love, come from your heart." ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Never rejects your feelings,accept your feelings and follow them.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the w...
KEN POIROT I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you...
MOTHER TERESA After your fourth or fifth close loss, you still can't find the words. It rips your heart out.
AUSTIN FLYNN Life may sometimes be cruel, it may harm you, may hurt your feelings. And in times of great sufferin...
PEDRO We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind...
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C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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