R.S. Thomas Quotes

The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness.

The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life.

God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call ‘Cosmic Laws’ or ‘Natural Laws’ or ‘Universal Laws’.

Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!

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

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.

Bureaucracy: A contentious rumble toward the establishment of authoritarian rule.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

And see ye not that braid braid roadThat lies across that lily leven?That is the path of wickednessThough some call it the road to heaven

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.

Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.

You have the potential to make healthy choices and balance your priorities no matter where you are on your life journey.

The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

It is tha action that we're taking NOWThat will determine our FUTURE lives.

It is The Action That We are Taking NOWThat will Determine our FUTURE Lives

Live healthy NOW, You won't regret it

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

When you laugh – you surrender to the greatness of this moment.

If you want to change your life – Smile. If you want to change someone else life – Smile.If you want to be connected – Laugh.

When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.