What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The essence of education lies in drawing out the very best that is in you. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that… — Tyga Copy Share Image
It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
“The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.” — Mike Donehey Copy Share Image
So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that. — Steve Carlton Copy Share Image
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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