Their True Quotes
170 Their True quotes by 136 unique authors
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Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
— Marcel Proust
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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
— Thomas Merton
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An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
— Joyce Cary
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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow…
— Ivy Lee
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For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it…
— Rob Bell
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The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly…
— Tarsem Singh
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When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing…
— Christiane Northrup
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All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither…
— Harold Klemp
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In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true…
— George Washington
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I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling…
— Dolly Parton
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Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who…
— Saint Basil
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A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to…
— Eugene O'Neill
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With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,…
— William Hazlitt
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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
— David Byrne
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but…
— Paul Gauguin
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their…
— Denis Diderot
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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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People will always show their true selves in the end.
— Leona Lewis
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he…
— James Thurber
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Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then…
— Anne Frank
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
— Mario Puzo
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A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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