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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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Our love is here to stay.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
But I would be proud.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
I know you are, but what am I ?
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Act or accept.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Come, let us make love deathless.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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 more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination