Essence Quotes

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!

To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.