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Quotes About Essence

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
~ James Agee
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
~ Dogen
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
~ Edward Albee
If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.
~ Brian Andreas
Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
~ Marion Woodman
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
~ Muhammad Ali
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
~ George Benson
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
~ Haruki Murakami
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.
~ Agnivesh
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
~ William Ernest Henley
Life is real only then, when "I am".
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
~ Adele
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~ Carl Jung
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
~ Sam Abell
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
~ David Cronenberg
The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.
~ Bruce Lee
You don't need the fame to be vital.
~ Herbie Hancock