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
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
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
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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 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 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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
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
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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