R.S. Thomas Quotes
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.
I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.
The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.
A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.
When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault.
If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.
Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
The media and the interviews are great, but that does not help me make a call on the field. To me, I've got to work the game, and I've got to be great at it.
I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
