Quotes About Essence

The touch of the demon was the essence of pleasure. He stroked Daniel's face, his throat, and his burning eyes were full of tenderness.

It is the breath of Caradore, its fragrance. He needs to carry that with him.

This country; you can feel the magic, can't you?" He inhaled slowly. "Smell it.

We could not enter the soulscape, but we could move, disembodied, through the real world. The combined essence of our minds soared up through the tiers of Taparak, the ancient trunks shadowy to our altered awareness.

The Merante led the way, and as she descended, she began to sing. Other women joined in the harmony, creating a weird and haunting melody that was the essence of longing and resolve.

To me, Burns expressed, in its most succinct form, the ideal and the essence of socialism — which had to do with justice, liberty and the overthrow of tyranny.

From this I came to understand that identity is not a set of fixed attributed, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning. We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact, identity is always a never-completed process of becoming - a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.

This word is the sound of breathing. The holiest Name in the world,

I realised that day that when the animation of the person we were is stripped out of the vessel we have used to pilot our way through life, it leaves little more than an echo or a shadow in the physical world.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange. Perhaps this is also one of the roles of the exotic, to alter and sharpen our perceptions.

They are the abridgments of wisdom.

No image can be more beautiful than its meaning.

Unlike the human spirit which is drawn from the infinite Spirit of God, the human soul is truly a new thing, coming into existence at the moment when God joins matter (earth) with His essence (spirit). This happens in the womb at the time of conception. From The Quiet Heart

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

As I always say, I don't want to limit myself to being an ingredient in any dish. I want to be the sole flavoring agent, without which making the dish is impossible.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song

It is who you are that matters and not how you look.

Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.

...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...

We were what seemed important then, not some label.

A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death.