Essential Quotes

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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the… — Pierre de Coubertin
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the… — Meher Baba
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system… — John C. Calhoun
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized… — Cordell Hull
I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't… — Holly Golightly
Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is… — Robin Sharma
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential… — Jon Postel
Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to… — Natasha Trethewey
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come… — Patricia Churchland
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an… — Abraham Verghese
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so;… — Roger Cohen
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate — Patricia Hill Collins
One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes… — Bob Riley
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. — M. Russell Ballard
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate… — Niklaus Wirth
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to… — Nichiren
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. — Cardinal Richelieu
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born… — Norman Borlaug

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