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True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
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
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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 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
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- 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
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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