I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney 
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
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
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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 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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- 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.
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
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 friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- 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
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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- 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
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
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
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- 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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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