Quotes About Essential

Given time—time not in years but in millennia—life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

Mustn't desire then be integral—a set of essential guideposts on the map of life's purpose? And mightn't its very denial then be a desecration?

Alvaro, who could no more withhold love than he could resist taking in each next breath

we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

every day in every life is of the most profound importance.

Only the moonlit mind allows wonder, and it is in the thrall of wonder that you can see the intricate weave of the world of which you are but one thread, one fantastic and essential thread.

Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.

Protracted self-promotion drains something essential from the soul

If you shift lenses from "I'm in the world" to "I am the world ," you will understand that it's not only okay to be everything, but it's essential.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No new truths await discovery; everything has been given already. But it has all been scattered abroad and dispersed, misrepresented by analysis, dulled by routine repetition. The essential words have been prostituted. We must recover the vital meaning of these ideas.

Ecco, pensò Amerigo, quei due, così come sono, sono reciprocamente necessari. E pensò: ecco, questo modo d'essere è l'amore. E poi: l'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore; non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. So here I am walking along this empty surface that is the world.

Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.

Spiritual leadership requires Spirit-filled people. Other qualities are important; to be Spirit-filled is indispensable.