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

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can shatter souls. Choose carefully the words you say to others. Choose wisely the words you say to yourself. Words have a way of becoming truths we believe about ourselves. And what we believe, we become.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours.

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

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...

As my mother told me sticks and stones may break my bones but words don’t hurt me.

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

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.