Quotes About Essence

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true name? It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called. Ever wonder why? Your true name has the secret power to call you .

What is blood but the wine of life?

We've gone over all the soul's smallest details.

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.