To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
[Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The longer I stay clean, the better my beats are getting and the easier it is to zero in on one idea.… — Larry Tee Copy Share Image
…the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God,… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. — Sarah Moon Copy Share Image
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image