The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement
the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
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 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
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
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
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
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
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 mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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
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
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
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
There is nothing true anywhere,
The true is nowhere to be seen;
If you say you see the true,
This seeing is not the true one.
- Abraham Lincoln paraphrasing Lao Tzu' Tao te Ching
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- 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
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.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
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
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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