Thomas Trahern
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Follow the money.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Remove failure as an option.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
You're tearing me apart !
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
There's no place like home.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.