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May you find great value in these Obscure quotes and sayings.
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
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
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
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love Without Limits.
- 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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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