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Quotes About Essence

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.
~ Rokia Traore
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.
~ Stephenie Meyer
There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.
~ Travis Beacham
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
~ Wallace Stevens
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
~ Wilkie Collins
Where your life ends, your being doesn't. Where your being ends, you don't. That is what is able to have and move your forms.
~ John de Ruiter
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
~ John Ruskin
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
~ Joseph Joubert
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
~ Margaret Fuller
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.
~ Mary MacLane
You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.
~ Frederick Lenz
Chi," which he defines as the "force which pervades the universe from which reality arises.
~ John E. Mack
We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.
~ John Eldredge
your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...
~ John Geddes
we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..
~ John Geddes
I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...
~ John Geddes
only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
~ John Geddes
Embrace clichés, then rejuvenate them. Assemble all the visual ones associated with your brief then look at ways of reusing them, and reconnecting to their essence with new vigour.
~ John Ingledew
Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell
~ John Jakes
Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself
~ John Jakes
Ojo por ojo, la esencia de todas las venganzas.
~ John Katzenbach