Quotes About Essence

We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.

Sighing, he paused a moment as if to take in my essence or to gather his wits. As he had no wits to gather, it must have been my essence giving him pause.

when the human spirit departs, it takes with it the vital stuffing of life. Then, only the inanimate corpus remains, which is the least of all the things that make us human.

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.

The best movies are simple.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one. Clearly it stands for something more.

Movement is nothing but the quality of our being.

The most important thing is to express your true nature in the simplest, most adequate way and to appreciate it in the smallest existence.

When we express our true nature, we are human beings.

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

Yo sentía el transcurso, la esencia del tiempo en sus repeticiones. Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

Yes, we do need love just as we need food and water, but there is a difference. Food and water are elements of the earth that sustain our physical bodies, whereas love is the language of G-d, which sustains our soul.

The light may cast many reflections but is it still the light that matters.

Some things aren't measured by their size, but by their importance.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of God as the giver of his law.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you the social reformer see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Love is the first wisdom in life.

There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.

Love has been stronger than the air you breathe.