You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Choice
Remorse not only turns God against us, but turns us against ourselves, and makes the soul like the scorpion in the fire, which stings itself to death.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Remorse
If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Women, Feminism
The actions of men are like the index of a book: they point out what is most remarkable in them.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Action
My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Strength, Success
In whatever mind prejudice dwells, it acts, in relation to truth, as alkali does in relation to acids, neutralizing its power.—Arguments the most cogent, discourse the most powerful, can be neutralized at once by some prejudice in the mind.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Prejudice
If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Choice
Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame,—gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.
—R. David Thomas
Happiness is action.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Action, Happiness
Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Action, Happiness
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Action
The principles now implanted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Principles
Nature is avariciously frugal.—In matter it allows no atom to elude its grasp; in mind, no thought or feeling to perish.—It gathers up the fragments that nothing be lost.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Nature
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Luck
There’s no one to stop you but yourself.
—R. David Thomas
Topics: Self-reliance, Independence
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