Quotes About Essence

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that's really truthful.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Speed is the essence of war.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Time doesn't change a person's basic character.

It's as if the body is a candle and the soul is its flame. When the flame is snuffed out, all that is left to prove that there had been a flame is the candle

books have souls

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.