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.
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
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
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
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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 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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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 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
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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 learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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
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
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
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