R.S. Thomas Quotes
There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.
Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.
There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.
no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.
I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.
I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.
Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its beautiful.
When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility
The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.
Our choices decide our direction and carve a path for our personal lives and our careers.
I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.
Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.
Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.
Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives
And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.
You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.
God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.
I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.
You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead
Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.