Quotes About Essence

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

I am. I was. I am not. I never am.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

I once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too. We take the essence of the initial snapshot and the essence of an imagined snapshot and smash them together to create an entirely new one.

You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.

Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

The best magic comes from the inside.

All it would cost me was my soul. And no, I'm not talking about anything magical or metaphysical. I'm talking about the core of my identity, about what makes Harry Dresden who and what he is. If I lost those things, the things that define me, then what would be left?

What do we have left?" "Persons," I said quietly. "I don't understand," Susan said. "As a whole, people suck," I replied. "But a person can be extraordinary.

I seek the substantial in life.

Nous sommes imprégnés de cynisme, d'explications psychologiques ou autres, mais la vie est toujours là, ainsi que son essence inacessible, son cycle aussi sûrement installé qu'autrefois.

Insight into customers' needs is important, but it's not enough. The essence of strategy and competitive advantage lies in the activities, in choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities from those of rivals. Each of the companies we've just described has done just that, tailoring their value chains to their value propositions.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this place, ingrained, like the scent of cigarettes and burning sugar, in the woodwork and plaster. Everything was buzzing with that vanished presence, buzzing and singing and laughing louder than ever before, stone and tile and polished wood, all whispering with agitation and excitement; never still, never silent.

the Blessed Damozel essence of every dream and fairy story and legend and fear ...

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Love is not an equation... It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.

I just want the real, keep the rest.

Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.

No gender,No age,No religion,No caste,No region,No salary,No family background...I want to know the people by what they are...and I want them to know me by what I am...there's nothing to do with all this stuff!