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Welcome to these Obscure Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
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The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
You have to be an original individual;
you have to find your innermost core on your own,
with no guide, no guiding scriptures.
It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry
you are bound to come to the sunrise.
Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry
has found the sunrise.
Others only believe.
Those who believe are not religious,
they are simply avoiding the great adventure
of religion by believing.
- Osho
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- 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
Choose love - always.
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Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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