Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
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
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
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
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
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
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
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.
- 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.
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
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.
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
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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