Words make you think a thought.
by E. Y. Harburg
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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Sayings by E. Y. Harburg
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Words Sayings
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu 
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
Truthful words are not beautiful;
beautiful words are not truthful.
Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
All these primary impulses,
not easily described in words,
are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Make Sayings
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
I Make Free-Will Choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
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