"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Words definitely have power. If someone criticizes us we may pretend it does not bother us, but later in privacy we will evaluate the criticism in hopes that it is not true. Even if we find the criticism to be false we usually still feel hurt by it until the thought completely leaves the mind or an apology is given. Not only that but words say a lot about the way we think, and our thoughts have a lot of power. For example, some people are able to speak their way to being sick. After continually talking about being sick and thinking about being sick people will find themselves feeling more sick the more they talk about it. If someone says something bad about us, and we allow ourselves to believe it to be true, regardless to if it is true, we may make it true because we believe it.