Essence Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
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Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.
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If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
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Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
