Quotes About Essence

Now the essence of anything is abstract. It is never found. It is never reached. Yet if you search for the essence of perfection, you become more perfect. Search for the essence of success and you become more successful. Search for the essence of achievement and you achieve more.

Remember: The essence of a living philosophy is that it must be alive. To be alive, it must be lived. To be lived, you must act! Actions, not mere words, determine the validity of a man's living philosophy.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

After you die, you wear what you are.

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

More meaning than was necessary was in the nature of things.

to know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.

Love is the bottom line.

in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought.