Quotes About Essence

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Very few things in life matter.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Be - don't try to become.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

The essence of love is kindness.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions—her own soul.

The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something "good enough" had long since been accepted by our race.

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. Something 'good enough' had long since been accepted by our race.