Karlyle Tomms Quotes

The more you look at what's wrong with your life, the less you will see what's right with your life.

Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you will ever have because you are the only person with whom you will spend every moment of your life. Treat yourself with kindness, courtesy, and respect. Cherish who you are!

You can't go somewhere else in life till you first admit where you are.

Put very simply, the first rule for establishing and maintaining healthy relationships is this: Treat me right (with the respect, honor and dignity I deserve as a human being)or you won't be treating me at all.

You can hoard all the riches in the world and it still means nothing if you do not also possess a giving heart.

Hate for hate brings only hate. Love for hate brings healing.

Gay marriage isn't a threat to traditional marriage. Divorce is a threat to traditional marriage. Is anyone going to propose a constitutional amendment banning divorce?

The one who tells you that you are not to question their authority is the very one you need to question the most.

Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.

You cannot save those you condemn, for by condemning you have separated yourself from them. Love is not an act of separation.

I may not be able to fix what is wrong, but if I stand with someone who is suffering, it may give them the courage to stand up to what is wrong.

Words Are The Ones Used To Degrade And Demean Another Human Being

One of the biggest relationship mistakes is trying to "make" another person happy. The only person you can make happy is yourself. We are each 100% responsible for our own happiness. Take responsibility for your own happiness and let everyone else take responsibility for theirs.

Everything is temporary. There is nothing in the world that is not perishable. Therefore, treasure and honor all that you have in this moment, for in the next, it may be gone.

But selfishness can take on many disguises. It can also be about defending and trying to prove your own belief system while denying there could be value in the beliefs of others.

A terrorist attack is like a wasp sting. It may be very painful, but it does not kill the host. It only makes the host more determined to find the nest and destroy it.

My father after all was a drunk. As much as I had loved him and adored him as a child, I had begun to realize how much he had wasted his life and his own opportunities in life. As much as I resented Mother's control of him, I began to realize that she had a reason for pushing him and that it was not entirely for selfish reasons. She also wanted our family to be more.

If each day you took only one step toward your dreams, how far will you have come a year from now compared to where you are today?

Child, I am telling you that you don't have to do anything to be special." She leaned forward a little more and patted my arm to call my attention. When I turned to look, her eyes met mine with a gaze of pure love. "You are already special," she went on. "You don't have to get an education to be special, but you can if you want to. You don't have to cure cancer to be special, but if you do the world would be grateful. God don't make nobody who ain't special. It means we are all equal in his love. There ain't no way around it. If you believe that love is real, then we are all equal in it.

There is no day that anyone ever lived that is identical to any day ever lived before it. The future is a flower in constant bloom. Each day a new petal unfolds.

When you attend only to this moment regrets of the past begin to fade.

If I do not seek to be at peace with myself, how can I find peace with someone else?

It is within my own heart that change must take place. It is the examination of my own soul and the questioning of my own beliefs that will bring healing. Judgment does not heal. I cannot save anyone through my condemnation of them. It is only through deep honesty with myself, and the examination of my own selfishness that I can begin to treat others as I would wish to be treated.

I may have to remove myself from the argument in order to place myself in the solution.

There are two basic elements of life, destiny and choice. Destiny is anything I can't control. My own choice is the only thing I can.

Resistance is always more painful than letting go.

The next time you look at someone and think about how strange or odd they look to you, ask yourself, "Is it possible I look odd to them too?