Quotes About Essence

Love is the true condition of human life.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

A un certo punto c'è qualcosa che ci resiste. È quello che chiamo "inemendabilità", il carattere saliente del reale.

Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

I have been close to suicide more than once, and more than once have been close to a mystical experience of unity with the universe. The two states resemble each other: one has no wall, one is absolutely naked and diminished to essence. Then death would be the rejection of life because we cannot let go what we wish so hard to keep, but have to let go if we are to continue to grow.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

The big question, I jotted down during the long wait at the long wait at the airport, is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death and of being buried under the weight of technocracy. How to keep cool and get hold of the essential... and, above all, how to recognize the essential.

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

That's all I need. You loving me. Nothing else matters.

It's about the person's soul, Lizzie, not the parts they have on the outside. You know that." I'd nodded. Because that's true. At least, that's how it's supposed to be.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

You are healed. Allegra nodded. You are no longer a Silver Blood. She paused. But you are no longer a vampire either. Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?

The essence of true love is mutual recognition—two individuals seeing each other as they really are.

That primitive Skunk Works operation set the standards for what followed. The project was highly secret, very high priority, and time was of the essence.

When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

Shun epic verse.

So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said

How does the soul enter the body from the aloofness of the intellectual world? The answer is, through appetite. But appetite, though sometimes ignoble, may be comparatively noble. At best, the soul has the desire of elaborating order on the model of what it has seen in the IntellectualPrinciple (nous). That is to say, soul contemplates the inward realm of essence, and wishes to produce something, as like it as possible

The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.