Essence Quotes

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If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to… — Garchen Rinpoche
[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?… — Alexander Pope
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more… — Israel Zangwill
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of… — Daisaku Ikeda
When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if… — Frieda Lawrence
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… — David Brin
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions. — Ludwig von Mises
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond… — Dalai Lama
What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of… — L. P. Jacks
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people… — Stephen Covey
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all,… — David Graeber
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact… — Chris Hedges
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is… — Maria Montessori
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
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it. — Timothy Keller
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want… — Lori Earley

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