Quotes About Essence

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.

She'd become so beautiful, it defied understanding. Never had I feasted my eyes on such beauty. Beauty of a variety I'd never imagined existed. As expansive as the entire universe, yet as dense as a glacier. Unabashedly excessive, yet at the same time pared down to an essence. It transcended all concepts within the boundaries of my awareness. She was at one with her ears, gliding down the oblique face of time like a protean beam of light.

a person's mind is controlled by his body, right? Or is it the opposite—the way your mind works influences the structure of the body? Or do the body and mind closely influence each other and act on each other? What I do know is that people have certain inborn tendencies, and whether a person likes them or not, they're inescapable. Tendencies can be adjusted, to a degree, but their essence can never be changed.

I don't have a thing,Tengo said, except my soul.

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something.

No matter how far you go, you can never be anything but yourself.

Simplicity helps you keep the main thing the main thing and things unimportant.

We only really need one of a good thing

As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom.

Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen

The Purpose of Life is Life itself it

Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert to nature—with

The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.