Quotes About Essence

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

I abhor mere prettiness.

The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.'

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.

When we are able to look deeply and let go of permanence, happiness, self, and purity, we arrive at insight. With this insight, instead of idealizing the object of our sensual desire, we can distinguish his or her true nature. We see that in essence he or she is impermanent, without a self, and impure—just like us.

The S?t? school of meditation has the saying: "You cannot conceive the inconceivable. Not trying to conceive what is inconceivable is the essence of meditation.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.

How would you draw the line between women with something and women with nothing in them?

The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

We named her Kalisa. Dat name, da essence…it mean given to God. I guess

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

but just as little might one say that they had been derived from organic nature.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

What we have to be is what we are.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree

We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.