Quotes About Essence

Genuine friendship cannot be separated from the personality, essence and nature of the friend as a person.

There is in me, deep down, as there must be in everyone–at least, I hope there is, for I would not wish to be alone in this–a part that does not care for anything other than itself. I could lose everything and everyone and that pilot light would still be burning at my centre, that steady flame that nothing will quench, until the final quenching.

What are living beings, compared to the enduring intensity of mere things?

In essence, engaging in sin is exchanging a short-term positive for a long-term negative, for after it's over sin stings us with the long-term consequences of death.

And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.

I have many names, but only one nature

The first key to greatness," Socrates reminds us, "is to be in reality what we appear to be.

Abraham Lincoln dijo: "El carácter era como un árbol y la reputación como su sombra. La sombra es lo que pensamos de él; el árbol era lo verdadero".

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists – all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don't matter at all.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

Probablemente piensa que lo mismo les sucede a los artistas en general, a los artistas masculinos, que no están hechos para lo que llamo amor; que no pueden entregarse del todo, o no están dispuestos a hacerlo, por la sencilla razón de que tienen una esencia secreta que han de preservar por el bien de su arte.

There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.

The reality is one thing; the name; with all is strange associations, is only an outward shell of such reality.

Me without you is like the moon without the stars, a kiss without lips, and a body without a heart. A world that doesn't spin, a sun that doesn't shine, a moon that doesn't glow, like life without a purpose, and a smile that never shows.

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it can not leave you.

Care is the sweetest essence in the world, If someone says take care, it means you live in that person's heart until the last beat.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

A pretty face gets old. A nice body will change. But a good woman will always b a good woman.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

Everything but a life can be replaced.