Tom Cohill:
CLASS OF 1994
North Shore High SchoolClass of 1994
Glen head, NY
Tom's Story
Tom is from Glen Head, New York. Tom's schools include North Shore High School. Tom later attended Hunter College (English Language & Literature) . Tom works(ed) at Ymca Of Long Island, Ymca Of Long Island, Ymca Of Long Island.
Music Tom likes includes It All Depends on My Mood, Phish, Dave Matthews Band. Books Tom likes include The World According to Garp, Jitterbug Perfume, The Pillars of the Earth. Movies Tom likes include The Life Aquatic, Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python's Life of Brian. TV shows Tom likes include Jersey Shore, Flight of the Conchords, Family Guy.
One of Tom's favorite quotes is:"Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves.
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And i'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go
It is difficult to maintain the optimism of the heart in the face of the pessimism of the intellect.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction bewtween his work and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation; he hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever it is he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always appears to be doing both.
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. What has violence ever accomplished, what has it ever created? Violence breeds violence, retaliation breeds retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickn...Expand for more
ess from our souls. For when you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color, or his beliefs or the policies that he pursues, when you teach that those who are different from you threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens, but as enemies. Our lives on this planet are too short, the work to be done is too great. But we can perhaps remember, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life that they seek as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, surely this bond of common fate, this bond of common roles can begin to teach us something, that we can begin to work a little harder, to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.".
More about Tom:""Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring."
I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.".
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