Essence Quotes

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

Essence of humility is unity.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

The essence of right living is to do good to others.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

We manifest from Spirit. When Spirit begins to rule in our lives, we can literally manifest or attract to us everything that we perceive to be missing. That's really the essence of it.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.