Quotes About Essence

Photographs were more than my livelihood. They were part of my life. The way light fell on a surface never failed to tug at my imagination. The way one picture, a single snapshot, could capture the essence of a time and place, a city, a war, a human being, was embedded in my consciousness. One day, one second, I might close the shutter on the perfect photograph.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

If I could see and really understand the essence of the life that is right around me I could with even such technique as I now command make masterpieces.

In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.

Be careful not to spend your life laboring in secondary causes.

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. – Colossians 2:9

La apreciaba por lo que era, no por lo que parecía.

Uno es lo que produce.

Knowledge is but a tool. The spirit is of the essence.

it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

What is the "substance" of story?

Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.

The blood that soils your body becomes stars ...

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived, and let the unlived rot? -C.G. Jung, from Liber Novus

final ritual?" "This is the all-important Ritual of Simplicity.

mind management is the essence of life management.

These people never realize that mind management is the essence of life management.

The majority of us have been hypnotized out of the luminosity that is our essence. Most of us in this age spend our most valuable hours being busy being busy.

They are blocking the enormous potential of their minds to work magic and deliver into their lives all that they want, emotionally, physically and, yes, even spiritually. These people never realize that mind management is the essence of life management.

people never realize that mind management is the essence of life management.

This is the essence of tragedy, To have meant well and made woe, and watch Fate, All stone, approach.