The words and other valuables you allow into your heart will live on forever. Let me know if you feel differently about this.
Children take to jingles and in time come to assimilate with the words, form opinions. And oh, how those words that seem benign hurt us all. Hatchet those mean words out!
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Words are all we have. Speak uplifting words.
Words, believe it or not, hurt deeply. A heart that weeps the life of a honey bee will undoubtedly find its heart shattered to pieces by mean words that hurt another human being. I ask that you be kind to all living things. Good living is not just about doing good but about not doing bad to all living things. If you have nothing good to say about someone, please, for the transcience of being, for the preciousness that life is, treat your life and that of everyone else with reverence and compassion. Curb your tongue.
I read that a couple of summers ago ten smart kids -- kids with great grade point averages and high SAT scores -- who had been accepted to Harvard…