If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.