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The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Related topics: Wisdom
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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 meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
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
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
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering come from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
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
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I Dance with a Light Heart.
I 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
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- 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
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- 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
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- 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
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
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