Essential Quotes

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Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected,… — Olivier Clement
The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact… — Norman Anderson
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible… — Unknown Author
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success… — Don Kates
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being — Igor Stravinsky
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential… — Carl Jung
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere… — Pope John Paul II
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential… — Mark Epstein
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating. — Carly Simon
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are… — Shmuley Boteach
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in… — Eugene H. Peterson
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and… — Vince Lombardi
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of… — John F. Kennedy
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.... — Thomas A. Edison
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development. — Tim Wirth
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing… — Thomas Jefferson
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster

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