— Haley Mae

tell me words aren’t powerful
go ahead
I dare you
I dare you to tell me that
words don’t make you feel things
tell me you don’t feel anything when your father told you you’re worthless
tell me that
tell me that you have no emotion
because darling
you ignorant fuck
I want to fix you
I don’t know what it is in me
that wants to fix everyone
I want to tell people what they are worth
i want to make them feel something
but most of the time people think I’m crazy
and I’m always afraid I will come on too strong
and maybe thats why I write it down
maybe that’s why people tend to call me quiet
maybe that’s why I’ve always been a bit unwelcoming
I’m afraid of what I have to say
because I’m afraid it will be to brutally true
but then again
maybe it could fix you

blah blah

Words are just words. People use words as a way to express themselves, They use them to lift up, to tear down, in jest, to express an emotion they’re feeling, etc… In the end they’re just words, and there comes a point when we have to decide whether those words are worth anything, or just a smoke screen for something they themselves aren’t honest with themselves about. 

I am tired of fucking words. I will no longer be taken in by fucking words. You can blah, blah, blah all damn day, but it’s going to fall on deaf ears from now on, because your words mean nothing … they didn’t mean a god-damned thing. So fuck you and your words!

as much as an artist can.

“Nobody will ever love you as much as an artist can. On your worst days, they will find poetry in the knots of your hair.”

Demi: You are ....

— Mark Twain

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter–’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

— Sufi Saying

Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates.
At the first gate, ask yourself ‘Is it true?’
At the second gate ask, ‘Is it necessary?’
At the third gate ask, ‘Is it kind?’

— T.B. LaBerge // Go Now

Sometimes we need to stop and say “Thank you for loving me.”
It is such a simple thing to say yet it carries so much weight, whether it is with a spouse while you both read your books or it’s with a friend who has been with you through thick and thin or it is to a family member who has loved you from the start.

Those words, that thought, the action of saying it to them with purpose and truth can mean the world to them. Because after all, they mean enough for you to say “Thank you for loving me.”

Words

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

OUAT

What matters is what he’s doing about it, and what he’s doing about it is nothing.

He may love you. He probably does. He probably thinks about you all the time. But that isn’t what matters. What matters is what he’s doing about it, and what he’s doing about it is nothing. And if he’s doing nothing, you most certainly shouldn’t do anything. You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”

— Blocklava

“"Good Morning"
“How was your day?”
“Be careful”
“Text me when you get home so I know you’re safe”
“Sweet dreams”
“How are you?”
“I hope you’re feeling better”
“Have a good day today!”
“I miss you”
“Good night”
“Can you come over?”
“Can I come over?”
“Can I see you?”
“Can I call you?”
“You’re beautiful”
“Want something to drink?”
“Watch your step”
“Let’s watch a movie”
“What are you up to?”
“How is your day so far?”
“It will be okay”
“I’m here for you”
“Do you need anything?”
“Are you hungry?”
“I just wanted to hear your voice”
“You just made my day”
… You don’t have to hear “I Love You” to know that someone does. Listen carefully. People speak from the heart more often than you think.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.”

Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Words Elsa

— William Leal.

“It’s all messy: 
The hair. 
The bed. 
The words. 
The heart. 
Life…”

this guy knows how to talk.

The Ten Principles of Physical Fitness

— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“'Do you ever feel that way?'
‘Lonely?’
I search for the words. ‘Restless. As if you haven’t really met yourself yet. As is you’d passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - ‘Ah! There I Am! I’ve been missing that piece!’ But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it.’”