Quotes About Essence

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Time is the soul of this world.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

The essence of man is imperfection.

Man is what he believes.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Learn what you are, and be such.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.

It is what you are inside that matters. You, yourself, are your only real capital.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the dance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Such stuff the world is made of.

There is but one art, to omit.

All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual, somewhere in between, or nowhere on the continuum, your relationship with your Source, Creator, or Divine Essence impacts and affects every relationship in your life, including the relationship you have with yourself.

Doing the wrong thing can be corrected. Being wrong, on the other hand, is a fatal flaw. When being who we are—our essence—is deemed wrong, everything we touch becomes contaminated. Our innate wrongness becomes the filter through which we see the world and measure our worth, value, and deservedness.