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True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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 only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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 stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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 meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
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
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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