Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

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Then I will speak upon the ashes. ― Sojourner Truth

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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. ― Louis Zukofsky

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. - Marianne Williamson

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What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell. — Tony Robbins

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. -- Walt Whitman

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I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. -- Walt Whitman

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman

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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. -- Walt Whitman

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

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