Quotes About Essence

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

What does a house want to be?

To me, that's a huge part of hitting - trying to keep things as simple as possible.

Hulk is Hulk 24 hours a day, Ric Flair is Ric Flair 24 hours a day. There are some guys that no matter what environment they're in or what the scenario is, they're that guy because they really are that guy.

One understands the meaning of undying, Ah, The essential sound of wisdom

In this case, with mashed potatoes. "It's not about the potatoes!

no similes. Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

There's only things, Blackie.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

Some things, some places perhaps take up their truer existence in the mind.

down to brass tacks. What have you

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.

German had a lumbering, bull-in-china-shop feel, yet their culture gave birth to essential words that told much of what lay within: Schadenfreude, Angst, Weltschmerz—joy at the misfortune of others, anguish, sorrow at the world—words revealing the yawning abyss in their souls? But then there was a fine word that sounded like what it meant, Gemütlichkeit. Still

Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

The word family is derived from the word famulus, meaning a servant, and in its early usage, familia, it literally meant the servants of a household. In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love.

But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one.

It was] a beauty that sours if it isn't nourished by some goodness within.

If there is any essence of your spirit lingering here, come into our hearts, now, and stay with us, when we leave this place where you left us, so that we can carry you inside us, and always love you.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.