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Quotes About Essence

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
We are what we are.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Life is being, not having.
~ Austin O'Malley
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify." Or, as Plato wrote, "In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
~ Duane Elgin
Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.
~ Michael Dolan
Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
~ Oscar Wilde
What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.
~ Valeria Mazza
That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.
~ William Moseley
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
~ William Shakespeare
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
~ William Shakespeare
And a man's life's no more than to say "One."
~ William Shakespeare
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
~ William Wordsworth
In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.
~ Alan Cohen
It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
~ Alex Caceres
You can buy life only with life.
~ Austin O'Malley
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
~ Bill Vaughan
Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.
~ Boris Sidis
Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!
~ Bryan Kest
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
~ Carl Jung