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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
by Nelson Henderson

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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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

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

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

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- 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

True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo

Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote

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.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

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 love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope

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

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain

Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

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

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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

The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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

The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu

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

'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

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

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- 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

True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

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

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 sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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