R.S. Thomas Quotes

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

You do not know what is better before you have tried what is worse.

We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no, " courage to say, "yes, " for courage counts.

For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

We were meant to live courageous and bold lives and not lives of mediocrity. However, we have to live our lives actively and on purpose each day to be unstoppable.

When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Give life no quarter…pursue it with passion and purpose

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.

When the world uncovers some dark disguise, Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.

Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?

The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.

We are one.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

You MUST know You to do YOU!

Your imagination is the most powerful tool to create a great life.

Create a great future. Be happy NOW.

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.