R.S. Thomas Quotes

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

My mind s a center of divine operations

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

You can’t fall in love that fast. Not real love. Real love takes time, like a fine wine. Real love takes years. Not days. Not weeks.

In birth all things are kindred, the sounds me make universal to any species. We enter wailing of a lost world.

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

The world's supply of heartache is secure. There's love and hate and mayhem everywhere.

Only the framing material, " Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself, ' said Gabriel.

Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.

The gift of your time and attention is love in action.

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.

If you want to succeed, get some enemies.

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.

Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is a major hurdle in spiritual development.

We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.

Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to be, by all its previous thoughts, words and actions, including those of the previous lives.

We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we choose creates our destiny.