Essentials Quotes

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Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket! — Alfred Molina
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with… — Ross Parmenter
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events… — William Manchester
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture. — Susan Faludi
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained… — Vilayat Inayat Khan
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. — Paul Tillich
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which… — Robert Muller
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they… — Mary Russell Mitford
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary. — Simone Weil
The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel… — Susan L. Taylor
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living. — Ernest Wood
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in… — Winona LaDuke
There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All… — Joanna Macy
Children, if we can do archana of the 1000 Names of the Divine Mother daily with devotion, we will grow spiritually. There will never be… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full… — Mata Amritanandamayi
To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it… — Mata Amritanandamayi
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz. — Asa Gray
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. — Reginald Horace Blyth

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