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When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me,
and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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