Quotes About Essence

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

We forget we're mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

You absorb a lot of tradition in and around the kitchen simply by being exposed to how someone else performs tasks, and by replicating those techniques you are in essence maintaining a tradition of sorts.

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

The hand or foot, when separated from the body, retains indeed its name, but totally changes its nature, because it is completely divested of its uses and of its powers.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

I like 'I Can't Stand the Rain.' I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an 'oriental taste,' it has an essence of Asia.

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

I don't go for glamour roles.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

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.

I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

But there is no such substratum; there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.