Quotes About Essence

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you're naturally yourself, you're beautiful.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

Hot Boyz always shouted out a lot of things relevant to Texas so I connected with it. They were our neighbors and growing up we went to Louisiana every year for Mardi Gras, Bayou Classic and the Essence festival, so we grew up taking trips to Lafayette and New Orleans. Those were three annual trips.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I've struggled with that over the years: Is fashion relevant? Is it frivolous? Is it trivial? Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

True sensuality is something that is inherent or innate.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it.

I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.