The tongue has no bones but is strong and powerful enough to illustrate, elevate, illuminate, agitate, eliminate, motivate, help, hurt, humble, and heal.
"My task, which I am trying to achieve by the written word, is to make you hear and to make you feel - it is, before all to make you see." - Joseph Conrad.
"Don't diminish the power of words, for they move hearts and hearts move limbs." - Hamza Yusuf.
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses, limitations, strengths and joys - and therefore can replace the negative with the positive at will.