Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my… — Amanda Lindhout
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power… — Elif Safak
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs… — B.K.S. Iyengar
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. — Viktor E. Frankl
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. — Claudio Silvestrin
The essence of life is in remembering God. — Kabir
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can… — Walter Lippmann
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence… — Michel de Montaigne
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power… — John Dewey
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the… — Edith Wharton
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth. — Oscar Wilde
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,… — John Updike
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is… — Louis Kronenberger
My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. — Michael Dolan
The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you… — Rajneesh
The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. — Raphael
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power — Steven Biko
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley
Quickness is the essence of the war. — Sun Tzu
Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do… — Hamza Yusuf
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this… — Saadi
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould

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