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Quotes About Essence

Great business turns on a little pin.
~ George Herbert
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
~ Honore de Balzac
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
~ Billy Graham
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
~ Antonio Porchia
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
~ Tom Robbins
The essence of all health begins through joyful living.
~ Jesse Dylan
I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.
~ Bob Proctor
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."
~ Herbert Butterfield
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
~ Thomas Carlyle
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
~ Vladimir Lenin
There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
~ Craig Groeschel
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
~ H.L. Mencken
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
~ Philip Larkin
For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
~ Pico Iyer
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
~ Don DeLillo
All the great things are simple.
~ Winston Churchill
Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.
~ Bruce A. Ware
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.
~ Fred Rogers
The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
~ Charles Dickens
The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.
~ Charles Adams