Essence Quotes
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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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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All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.
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The very essence of success is practice.
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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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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
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The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.
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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
