Quotes by Thomas T. Matthews

“When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don't know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.””

We Are Not Ourselves

“Life is going to give you things to be angry at. I don’t want you to be consumed by that anger or forget how much you’re capable of.””

We Are Not Ourselves

“When I am gone, I want you to hear my voice in your head. Hear it when you most need to, when you feel most hopeless, when you feel most alone. When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don’t know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.””

We Are Not Ourselves

“The point wasn’t always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.””

We Are Not Ourselves

“Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren’t that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they’d been had found release through a necessary valve.””

We Are Not Ourselves

Thomas T. Matthews

Thomas T. Matthews was an influential American magazine editor, journalist, and writer, best known for his tenure as editor of Time magazine from 1949 to 1953. During his time at Time, Matthews played...