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'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Related topics: Wisdom
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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- 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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity
in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all
who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- 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
A miracle is nothing more or less than this...
Anyone who has come into a knowledge
of his true identity,
of his oneness with
the all-pervading wisdom and power,
this makes it possible for laws higher
than the ordinary mind knows of
to be revealed to him.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
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
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
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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
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
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- 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
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
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
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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 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 real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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