Quotes About Essence

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

Marriage is what marriage is... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

What you seek, you already are.

Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clothes

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

In simplicity there is truth.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.