WATCH THEM

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." - Napoleon Hill

A farmer insulted his neighbor. Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask for forgiveness. The preacher obliged, but gave him a bag of feathers, asked him to tear the bag and leave it in the center of a windy market. After, he'd done this the preacher asked him to go back, collect all the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn't as the feathers had all been blown everywhere. When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher said to him, "The same thing is true about your words. You drop them rather easily, but cannot retrieve them easily."

You sure have heard the mantra, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." Right? Well, just because it’s spouted by people doesn’t mean it’s true. As a matter of fact, the real translation is: "Sticks and stones may break my bones for a few days, but words can scar my soul for life." Now, that's better.

Yehuda Berg, once said, "Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."

Words are like a neutron bomb. It annihilates human life, but leaves buildings untouched, words can devastate. Your body may remain unharmed, but your heart suffers the deadly shrapnel of painful phrases. The power of life and death are in the tongue, watch what you say. Do not spread hurtful stories about people's predicaments. Learn to keep a secret, do not be quick to discuss people's flaws, and short comings. Little minds discuss people, great minds discuss ideas.