Quotes About Essence

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.

The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

For Loveliness, Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most

History was always present for Churchill. He understood, perhaps, that the essence of history is the present, for the present is nothing other than what the past has made it, only those most essential elements of the past being retained in the present. That is what makes them essential. One's understanding of the past is therefore a constituent part of one's understanding of current events and a guide as to how to act in it.

Each and every person has the light of God within," she said.

If he could not find beauty, nothing else would be worth finding.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.

A soul. A soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14).

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case.

his dick, for example, was just that. It wasn't odd or typical. It just was, by god. And isn't that nice?

Is a thing most fully itself in the darkness or the light?

Our behavior does not determine who we are!

Bliss is the nature of spirit-force in the same way that wetness is a quality of water.

Joseph Campbell would say find out who you really are and bring that out into the world.

Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.