Quotes About Essence

É estranho como uma coisa que fui ensinado a considerar com desagrado e como idolatria seja, em um momento de solidão e dificuldade, uma fonte de ajuda. Será que há algo na essência da coisa em si, ou será ela um meio, uma ajuda tangível, na transmissão de lembranças de simpatia e acolhimento?

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

The art of science, of which Newton was the master, lies in making judicious simplifications that render problems tractable while retaining enough of their essence to ensure that the conclusions drawn are relevant.

Adaptability is the essence of survival. —from the Azhar Book

To see and appreciate the soul of others with whom you are in a relationship is a higher state of awareness. To see only their outer characteristics provides a limited and incomplete perspective. Their current personality, just like their current physical body, is a temporary manifestation. They have had many bodies and many personalities but only one enduring soul, only one continuous spiritual essence. See this essence and you will see the real person.

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Confrontation,' he declared, 'is the essence of nature!' He shook his silvery braid loose and let his hair stream out behind him. 'Confrontation is the rhythm of life,' he went on. 'In nature violence is pure and purposeful, one species against another in an act of survival!' Terrific, Decker thought. Marlin Perkins on PCP.

But deep down, the the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

Everybody has one thing they keep, one thing that matters to them more than anything else. Life is just a process of elimination, figuring out what that one thing is. You may figure it out right at the end, just as you're losing it. If you're lucky.

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

The work 'production' in Marx's work covers any self-fulfilling activity: playing the flute, making a speech, engaging in politics, organising a birthday party for one's children. It has no muscular, macho implications. When Marx speaks of production as the essence of humanity, he does not mean that the essence of humanity is packing sausages.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.

Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.

There was no himself in himself.

Sooner or later, it's all about the soul.

By honoring wilderness, we honor beauty. Beauty is not peripheral but at the core of what sustains us.

Goodwill is not enough; we need to learn the art of making others happy. Art is the essence of life, and the substance of art is mindfulness.

Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.