Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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
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
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 love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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 mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- 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
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your 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
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
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 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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
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
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- 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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- 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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
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
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