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Quotes About Essence

Poetry is a necessity of life.
~ C.D. Wright
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
~ George Lucas
All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I seek the substantial in life.
~ Jim Harrison
There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.
~ Rumi
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
~ Simone Weil
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
~ Emily Bronte
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
~ Eric Lander
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
~ Angela Carter
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
~ Henri Bergson
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
~ Georges Bataille
I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.
~ Gloria Estefan
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
~ Gregory Maguire
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
~ Haruki Murakami
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.
~ J. C. Ryle
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
~ Jack Kornfield
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
~ Jean Rhys
It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.
~ Jenny Holzer
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti