Top 35 Karlyle Tomms Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Karlyle Tomms (via karlyletomms.com)

2. “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.”

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3. “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!”

— Karlyle Tomms

4. “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.”

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5. “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?”

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6. “If you are not happy with me then I would rather you be happy somewhere else than unhappy with me. For that matter, I would rather you be unhappy somewhere else than be unhappy with me.”

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7. “An imagination is a terrible thing to waste.”

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8. “Anger is like gasoline. You can use it to destroy or you can use it to fuel your transportation to a different place.”

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

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10. “Dreaming of a better tomorrow is the first step toward creating a better tomorrow. Let your mind soar.”

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

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12. “Want an effective way of creating positive change in your life? Stop talking about what you hate, and start talking about what you love. Stop accounting for what lack, and start counting all the reasons you have to be grateful.”

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13. “Happiness is created by giving, not by getting. You can never obtain enough of anything to “make” you happy, but if you ever truly give of yourself, but once, you will understand that happiness is something in you to be shared, not something outside of you to be obtained.”

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14. “We have the illusion that selfishness is about material gain – money, power, possessions, but selfishness can take many disguises. It can also be about defending and trying to prove our own belief system while denying there could be value in the beliefs of others.”

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15. “The sun seems brightest and most refreshing when the clouds part on a gloomy day. A little darkness insures our appreciation of the light.”

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16. “Punishing yourself for a mistake is making another mistake. Correction comes from caring, not from guilt.”

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17. “Let’s get this straight. The entire human race is crazy. Every single one of us is insane right down to the very last one. There are just varying degrees of crazy.”

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18. “A sense of humor is more than just having fun. It lightens the load for you and those around you.”

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19. “Going through a rough time in life is a filtration period. It is when you find out who your real friends are.”

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20. “The more you look at what’s wrong with your life, the less you will see what’s right with your life.”

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

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22. “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.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “We can never have what we fear, resent, or think we don’t deserve, no matter how much we want it.”

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26. “Hate for hate brings only hate. Love for hate brings healing.”

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27. “You can’t go somewhere else in life till you first admit where you are.”

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28. “As adults we must learn to be for ourselves what our parents could not be for us when we were children.”

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29. “Resistance is always more painful than letting go.”

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30. “Compassion may not fix a problem. It may not undo a wrong, but it may bring a little light into the life of someone who is suffering.”

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31. “Failure is inevitable. Everybody fails. Success is reserved for those few who are unafraid to fail and try again.”

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

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33. “The strain of trying to make another person change causes suffering for both.”

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

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35. “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?”

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36. “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?”

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