Essential Quotes

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As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For… — Richard Louv
The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds… — Mary Midgley
Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears.… — H. Burke Peterson
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received;… — Lewis Hyde
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from .… — Lewis Hyde
Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it. — Soichiro Honda
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. — Johan Huizinga
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential… — Mary Parker Follett
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted… — Jane Harman
I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me… — Ralph Bunche
Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying… — Dalai Lama
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? — Robert Noyce
Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built… — Rodney Collin
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. — Robin Quivers
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a… — Jason Epstein
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. — Pierre Salinger
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him,… — Henry Corbin
In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home. — Dani Shapiro
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it — Henry Mayhew
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. — Carson McCullers
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented… — Stephen Reinhardt
As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This… — M. Russell Ballard
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in… — Catherine Booth
Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as… — David Simon

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