Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
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
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
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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 like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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 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
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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- 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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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