R.S. Thomas Quotes

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.

Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past, And each heart is whispering, 'Home, Home at last.

With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.

Commitment is Circumstances

What about me?” Wes snapped. “Don’t I get a vote?”Daniel shook his head. “She’s willing and you’re breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

Show your love by giving your spouse incredible admiration and encouragement. - A Love Forever, Creating An Amazing Marriage.

Positive thoughts dramatically alter the direction of your life.

Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.

You’re each others ‘The One', just make sure you are each other’s RIGHT one.

Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.

We are most happy when we are most focused on serving God together.

We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...

The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.

You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is investing in that moment in the way that you can really feel the passion.

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.

I sing, no matter who is listening coz it is my natural way of expression.

If I never get to see the Northern lights. Or if I never get to see the Eiffel Tower at night. Oh, if all I got, is your hand in my hand, baby I could die, a happy man.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data that a theory of the world and our place in it has yet to explain.

The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and spirit complex.