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Quotes About Essence

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call hyou home? Only the one who knows your name.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.
~ Prem Rawat
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
~ Thornton Wilder
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
~ Smiley Blanton
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
~ Viktor Frankl
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
~ Unknown
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The things that count most cannot be counted.
~ Unknown
Love is not what we become but who we already are
~ Stephen Levine
We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.
~ Anne Heche
Love is the essence of human experience and emotion. It is at the root of all and everything we, as humans, do. Without love, what do we have to live for?
~ Robert Muller
Life is life Itself. No, words can exactly describe life, but living life truly defines it.
~ Unknown
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
~ Emil Brunner
mattered; he stank up the cabin just by walking inside. "You've brought
~ Mary Connealy
Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ragged clothes?" He grabbed my hand and examined it. "Chipped nails? Those aren't enough to disguise what's inside. You'll always be you, Lia. You can't run from that.
~ Mary E. Pearson
When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.
~ Mary MacLane
the essence of experience, the law of relation, is reciprocal freeing: here is "the rock and the substance of the human spirit.
~ Mary Parker Follett
She thought: This is how all life should be accepted, in desireless wonder, reaching out for nothing and thrusting nothing away, rejoicing in the different essence of each moment as it blazes into the present from the folded future. But she was under no illusions; for a life of such moments one needed a heart without roots, a spirit free in the wind, and empty hands. Once she had had them. She would never know them again. She had committed too much to earth.
~ Mary Renault
Life is too short for a long story.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu