True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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 stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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 comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
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 meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- 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
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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
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
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
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
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
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
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
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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