Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

And there are words, significant words, you do not want to say, words that account for busted-up lives, words that try to fix something ruined that shouldn’t be ruined and no one wanted ruined, and that words can’t fix anyway.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.

Sticks and stones can't break my soul
But words, they seem to sometimes harm me — Maybe it's because I'm forever hungry — ...for the truth of love.

"The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true."

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal. It’s a matter of how you pick them.