Quotes About Essence

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Man as a pure animal does not exist

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.

Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into "better than" grandiosity nor "less than" shame. But the essence of psychological patriarchy is the nonexistence of such middle ground.

We can never escape God's lovely essence.

Who would you be but who you are?

I am who I am; no more, no less.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

No existe nada realmente hermoso si no es lo que no puede servir para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas.

I swear by the most holy Essence of God exalted and glorified be He that in the Day of the appearance of Him Whom God shall make manifest a thousand perusals of the Bayn cannot equal the perusal of a single verse to be revealed by Him Whom God shall make manifest.