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True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
True independence is not a gift to be received.
It can't be a hand-out to people.
It must be an achievement by the people.
- Jimmy Yen
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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.
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- 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.
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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