Essence Quotes
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The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
Stephen Covey
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Love is in essence subversive.
Andreï Makine
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With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.
Rumi
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
William Hazlitt
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Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Huston Smith
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I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in Hamlet did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.
Haris Pasovic
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Oppression is the essence of power.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
Plato
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The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.
Carlos Mencia
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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
Tom Shadyac
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle
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Existence without essence is very stressful.
Brian Christian
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Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
Samuel Smiles
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The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
Nora Volkow
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As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
Bessel van der Kolk
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Northrop Frye
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The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
Seth Godin
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
Ernest Becker
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I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
Sandra Bernhard
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
Stephen Covey
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I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
Chairil Anwar
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Miguel de Unamuno