Tom Althouse > Quotes

“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“There is beauty all around us,
and the light finds us when we realize,
we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing.
If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves.
See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so.
We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.”
― Tom Althouse

“If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.”
― Tom Althouse

“Dare to live by letting go.”
― Tom Althouse

“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten...and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion...the hope is real...you are valued...and what lies ahead...is brilliance.”
― Tom Althouse

“Pause, breathe, and lift, undefined, what is possible. Let the feeling of celebration come upon you, even if you do not comprehend cerebral reasons to justify it. For from that center, it will generate its own, able to carry you, until the original ones manifest, from that very portal you chose to fashion, unrestricted.”
― Tom Althouse

“There are three things in life...not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.”
― Tom Althouse

“Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride...”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“In these times where it has seemed dark indeed
where integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore,
it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows,
to create miracles...
by choosing first courage,
then diligence,
standing,
opening our mouth
and speaking the truth that in rare moments,
may ignite the light.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.”
― Tom Althouse

“No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe.”
― Tom Althouse

“We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.”
― Tom Althouse

“I have come to learn,
that when people of money and power organize
to set upon to break a person they seek to silence,
and the person seems but a shadow of what they were,
under the endless barrage,
in the end when laid to rest,
the dignity, compassion and presence of the person
somehow endures,
and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.
As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,
and the light of their truth,
Is brilliantly lit and once more born.”
― Tom Althouse

“Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.”
― Tom Althouse

“A friend is a companion for the journey,
never a means to our own.
What we take we take together,
the joy we reap, we have sown.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“The only thing worth conquering, is our own fears.”
― Tom Althouse

“My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.”
― Tom Althouse

“So if you are what you eat and you are as young as you feel, then I am a pizza, right out of the oven.”
― Tom Althouse

“If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“When we are still,
all settles into place.
We take time to see the beauty.
We take time to see the heart.
And we naturally gravitate
to others
that resonate that inner calm.
When we are still.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“Not all who demand your attention desire your happiness, many merely seeking a conveyance to their own. It is entirely easy when wrapped up with the petty to miss what is possible and what rows your ship to worthwhile dreams. But when two or more fall together to share the oars of what might be, dreams may find them in equal measure and as fast as the wake made.”
― Tom Althouse