Quotes About Essence

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Man is what he believes.

we are souls. We have bodies, which are just temporary houses for our souls. . .The body is a container.

Alle Menschen verschwanden. Das Ding, das sie jagte, war vielleicht nur das Leben selbst.

He tells you, more than anyone else, that a body is what a soul looks like, that the way you speak and move is all there is and nothing more need be said.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

It's not the basic Ithat the poet is afterbut the essential you.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

Beauty is only about internal purity and not external vanity.

Simplicity is not about eating by sitting on the floor but leading truly a simple life to the heart core.

The beauty is solely in the SOUL, but a person who finds it on the face or any other body part has either a dusty MIND or a dusky HEART and is oneself not beautiful.

The reality of the character is only the identity of the personality.

The value of a person does not increase by the price of apparels and accessories s/he wears.

There is a big, big difference between 'Looking Beauty' and 'Being Beautiful' because the former is external feature but the latter is internal nature.

Water and air together gives often more flavor than anything else to the food of that place.

Beauty unadorned.

The essence of sin is selfishness. It is the deliberate choice of self in preference to God—personal and wilful rebellion against the known law of righteousness and truth.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. —ANNE LAMOTT

By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. —FREDERICK BUECHNER