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
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your 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
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 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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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