Quotes About Essence

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Dad was the biological vessel who helped put my soul into this body

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given.

The real you doesn't eat, or drink, or think, or sleep, or die.

Other trumps also have alchemical significance. The Art card is identified with vitriol, and the Lovers, the Hermit, Death, and the Devil all have vital roles to play in the alchemy of the tarot. There is also one more extremely important alchemical symbol we will see often when we examine the trumps. It is called the Orphic egg. "This egg represents the essence of all life that comes under the formula of male and female."74 THE

Crowley recognized in the images, symbols, and structure of tarot a unified field theory of Qabalah and Hermeticism—an illustrated guidebook of the soul that neatly synthesizes the essence of the Western Mysteries.

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is. -Lily Francone

One does not 'become' a Sun. One is or is not a Sun.

Every thing is what it is" is a famous phrase in British philosophy, and the essence of the empirical view.44*

For Lloyd, the essence of Standard Oil power resided in its secret alliances with the railroads, which had fostered the growth of many trusts.

The photograph captured the man whole.

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

Cuanto más te acercas a lo esencial, menos puedes nombrarlo. El tuétano de los libros está en las esquinas de las palabras. Lo más importante de las buenas novelas se agolpa en las elipsis, en el aire que circula entre los personajes, en las frases pequeñas.

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.

Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda.

Yes you are pretty, and when you pictured perfect, you came damn close, but the part of you I like the most is inside.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.

The grown-up is only a thin coat of chocolate over the hard nut of the child. Whatever you were as a kid, you still are when the chocolate gets licked off or scraped off.

Life, they say, comes down to a few concrete things: A shovel. Payday. A movie. Wine. What else? Is everything else an aroma diffused on the air? It is, because you can smell it, but how can you grasp it?

I always say that love is like the meat in a pie," Freddy put in. "The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you've got a meatless pie, and what's the point of that?" "Why, Freddy," Minerva said, "that was almost profound.

This silence pours a solitariness Into the very essence of my soul; And the deep rest, so soothing and so sweet, Hath something too of sternness and of pain.

The question of essences remains at the heart of the adaptive act; how to make a second version of a first thing, of a book or film or poem or vegetable, or of yourself, that is successfully its own new thing and yet carries with it the essence, the spirit, the soul of the first thing, the thing that you yourself, or your book or poem or film or your mango or lime, originally were.