True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
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
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
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 do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
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 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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
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
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
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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.
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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