Quotes About Essence

Adventure is the essence of life.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Only a few things are really important.

We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are.

Life is like a camera lens. Focus only on what's important and you will capture it perfectly.

Its not the outer appearance of a person that defines who they are, but whats on the inside that counts.

I don't care what I look like, I don't care what I am on the outside. What matters is what I am on the inside and that's being true from the heart.

Spirit is what makes us unique, what gives us strength, and it is what lives on after our bodies are no more.

Your not being yourself and 'you' if your seeking new ways to seem 'unique' - it should come naturally.

I'm falling in love with you, not because of how you look, but because of who you are,

It is not what you have in life that counts, but what you are.

You have a lovely soul, of a rare quality, an artist's nature, don't ever let it go without what it needs.

began to wonder whether originality really shows that great writers are gods, each of them reigning over a kingdom which is his alone, whether misleading appearances might not play a role in this, and whether the differences between their books might not be the result of hard work, rather than the expression of a radical difference in essence between distinct personalities.

Là comme partout, je connais tout le monde et je ne connais personne; beaucoup les choses et fort peu les personnes. Mais les choses elles-mêmes y semblent des personnes, des personnes rares, d'une essence délicate et que la vie aurait déçue.

since the beauty of human beings is not like the beauty of things,

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfalteringly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.