R.S. Thomas Quotes
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.
You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
