True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
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
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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
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
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
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
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
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
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
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing true anywhere,
The true is nowhere to be seen;
If you say you see the true,
This seeing is not the true one.
- Abraham Lincoln paraphrasing Lao Tzu' Tao te Ching
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
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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