The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
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
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
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your 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
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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
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
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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.
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
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.
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
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
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
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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