Name: ______________________________ Identifying Universal Truths

Directions: For each given quote, identify the Universal Truth from the list given.
Explain what clues from the quote led you to that conclusion. Universal Truths
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in Learning from mistakes
spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."
Having courage
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Doing the right thing
Love

"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess." Believing in yourself

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Being grateful
Being yourself
Overcoming challenges
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will
happen tomorrow, I look back." Forgiveness
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Importance of family &
friends

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
~Carl Jung

"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
~John Quincy Adams

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
~Donald Laird

"He that is overcautious will accomplish little."

~J.C.F. von Schiller

"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe
of himself."
~Georg C. Lichtenberg