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'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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
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 love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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