True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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 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
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
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
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
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
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
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 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
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
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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
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
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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 true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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