10 Quotes & Sayings By Tommy Tran

Tommy Tran is a 20-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the son of Vietnamese immigrants and is currently writing his thesis on the War in Vietnam.

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Hope is magic. Hope is a gift. Hope is a raft we cling to in the midst of a storm. Hope by nature is an independent of logic. Hope is power outside of the facts. The human mind longs for something better. Hope is not rational. Yet who need rationality when God is on our side? The capacity of hope is the most significant fact in life. Tommy Tran
2
We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. Tommy Tran
3
People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide. Tommy Tran
4
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late. Tommy Tran
5
If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come. Tommy Tran
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I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composure A boy trapped in a war, forced to be a solider The weight of the world just put on top of my shoulders But if there's one thing I know for sure It's that my mind has had its exposure And my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure Tommy Tran
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My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die. Tommy Tran
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I learned that love can end in one night, that great friends can become great strangers, that strangers can become best friends, that we never finish to know and understand someone completely, that the “never ever again” will happen again and that “forever” always ends, that the one that wants it can, will achieve it and get it, that the one that risks it never looses anything, that physique, figure and beauty attracts but personality makes one fall in love. Tommy Tran
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Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve. Tommy Tran