Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Life is magnificent - just as it comes.
Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.
Life is no pig.
Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.
When we are unhappy with life -
when we are shocked by the stock market,
or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,
let us not lash out in anger.
But also, let us not try to pretty up life
with some lipstick and some party clothes.
See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -
and then CHOOSE to love life.
CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,
be forgiving of everyone and of every act
we believe has hurt us.
Life just "IS."
We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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.
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
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
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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 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
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
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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