Quotes About Essence

Un hombre puede cambiar su apariencia y su nombre, pero no puede cambiar su interior.

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La morte ha tante facce, è una presenza anche quando non lascia dietro di se un corpo inerte.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

The Thou encounters me by grace -- it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.

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What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.

What is innermost is the fullness, and there is nothing further within.

The spirit animates the soul but the body kills it. The soul kills itself.

Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

Love is that to life, what wind is to a windmill.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.