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Please enjoy these Walter Scott quotes from my collection of quotes about life.
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
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
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The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
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
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
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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
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
I Honor My True Self.
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The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
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
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
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