Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of 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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
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)
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.
- 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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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