Quotes About Essence

It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

Principles make it simple.

The mental practice that underlies the anti-effort attitude is the act of evasion, of blanking out some fact of reality which one dislikes. This act constitutes the essence of irrationality and, therefore, of evil. Evasion is the Objectivist equivalent of a mortal sin. It is the only such sin that we recognize, because it is what makes possible every other form of moral corruption. 27

Prayer—the soul's blood. —GEORGE HERBERT

Water is the driver of Nature

Water is the driving force of all nature.

On the outskirts of our sad savage town, I was overcome by a feeling of profound melancholy, though I fought it off by stuffing a large amount of jasmine essence up my nose.

The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water

After all, being alive is my top priority...Leslie from Love & Hugs, Leslie

For Greek thought this was impossible since the essence of perfection is changelessness, and perfection cannot arise from the changes of human history. By contrast the Old Testament writers look forward to a glorious and terrible consummation of history. History has meaning in the sense that it has a goal.

no political or religious movement is a perfect expression of that movement's 'essence' as laid down in its sacred writings

It is indeed not enough to say that Nazi ideology was a 'caricature' of Nietzsche, since the essence of a caricature is that it helps us to recognize the original.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.

I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

So, if there's a choice between the trimmings or you—then it's easy to leave out the trimmings.