KILLING WORDS
Quick, careless words slaughter more spirits and lay open wounds (that are slow to heal) than guns, knives or automobile accidents combined. There is more suffering from unloving words [that may or may not be intended as weapons] than any other kind of suffering in the world. But because these wounds don’t bleed, we often use words that cripple and maim others without much thought of the wound we may be leaving. We are too civilized, though, to leave a wound that bleeds. A wound that bleeds usually heals with time and some amount of care. A wounded heart takes many lovings to only allow healing to begin.
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