R.S. Thomas Quotes

When you learn to trust and believe in yourself—your thoughts, feelings, and intuition—you give others the opportunity to trust you.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

words are a border collie’s worst nightmare.

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

What was wrong with

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.

Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.

With the increasing speed of business in today’s economy, transparency isn’t just desirable—it’s essential.

Knowing yourself means being aware of your potential and trusting that you are always growing into it.

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

The best advice is to be yourself, but to be your best self.

You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.

Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

I'm a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again.

The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings, / That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

What Does Not Kill you Builds You .

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

...the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.

Man be my metaphor’,

Wear #gratitude and life will show unto you into rhythm of synchronicity #quote

i use pain to push me to greatness

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.

I can’t sleep without you by my side.