Essence Quotes

• Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Human

• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacock of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Spirit
  • Christmas
  • Essence

• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Stars

• I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.

  

  Antoine D'Agata
  • Position
  • Essence
  • Happening

• The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

  

  Charles Adams
  • Business
  • Inspire
  • Greed

• The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Stop
  • Addiction
  • Essence

• A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

  

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
  • Essence
  • Change Of Heart
  • Re-education

• ..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Might
  • Harder

• Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Joy
  • Essence

• Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.

  

  Nina Shaw
  • Black
  • Place
  • Essence

• Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Suffering
  • Movement
  • Rights

• Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Records
  • Capture

• Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • History
  • Paris
  • Essence

• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  

  Abhinavagupta
  • Spiritual
  • Alive
  • Progression

• The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

  

  Richard Rainwater
  • Business
  • Knowing
  • Essence

• Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

  

  Charles Rollin
  • Talent
  • Birth
  • Employment

• Talents constitute our very essence.

  

  Charles Rollin
  • Talent
  • Essence

• I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Love
  • Essence
  • Compete

• Before you can live anything, in what you are calling physical manifestation - you have to have conjured it in vibrational form. You have to have imagined it before it can become a reality. Everything that you are living here in this physical body, you have imagined the essence of it before you are living it.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Reality
  • Body
  • Calling

• I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • People
  • Art
  • Sleep

• In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Real
  • Roles
  • Function

• 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
  • Love
  • Mirror
  • Reflects

• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Pleasure
  • Essence
  • Spontaneity

• I was a little worried she might try to drag me off to hell and drain my essence at some point, but I figured that was still better than having Gretchen for a best friend.

  

  Josephine Angelini
  • Essence
  • Worried
  • Best Friend

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