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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
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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
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington 
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
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
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
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True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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.
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.
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For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
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
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
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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.
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
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.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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
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
I Honor My True Self.
- 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 sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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