Quotes About Essential

To Erasmus] I give you hearty praise and commendation on this further account-that you alone, in contrast with all others, have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not wearied me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like -trifles, rather than issues... you, and you alone have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot.

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Contrary to what some have suggested, "helper" is not a demeaning term that indicates a lesser status, or the type of help that assists in a trivial way. The Hebrew word (ezer) is a powerful one. It's most often used with reference to the Lord being our helper (Pss. 33:20; 72:12). An "ezer" provides help that is absolutely and utterly indispensable.

One's sister is part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart, soul and memory.

One's Sister is a part of one's essential self,an eternal presence of one's heart and soul and memory.

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a personal God. But they really are essential, and reconceptualizing them in a way that allows us to reach their spiritual core—the development of a clear moral self—is crucially important to those of us working the Steps in sobriety.

Man braucht nur eine Insel Allein im weiten Meer. Man braucht nur einen Menschen, den aber braucht man sehr.

What You Need… One only needs an island alone and lost at sea. One only needs one person, but this to have is key.

Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.

10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It's the rhythm of the song of you. It's how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.

Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It's the rhythm of the song of you. It's how to get back to the center of things. The center of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.

Just as we need pauses between notes for music to sound good, and just as we need punctuation in a sentence for it to be coherent, we should see rest and reflection and passivity—and even sitting on the sofa—as an intrinsic and essential part of life that is needed for the whole to make sense.

The only thing we need is to exist.

We need. To need is to be human.

Everything should be embraced or rejected according to how it affects our essential purpose.

If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

El dolor es el alimento esencial del amor; cualquier amor que no se haya nutrido de un poco de dolor puro, muere

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

The world and reason are not problems; and though we might call them mysterious, this mystery is essential to them, there can be no question of dissolving it through some 'solution,' it is beneath the level of solutions.