Quotes about essence
essence generosity joy
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken. Chogyam Trungpa
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
essence simplicity taste
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
essence patterns emotion
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. David Brin
essence wetness moisture
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. Ben Stiller
essence fields action
No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field. Arnold J. Toynbee
essence life-is worthwhile
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley
essence giving tasks
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative. Deborah Eisenberg
essence listening world
If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself. Dennis Kucinich
essence vibrations
Life—God—in its essence is vibration. Edgar Cayce
essence giving different
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. Charles Sanders Peirce
essence important research
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.
essence fire house
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Charles Krauthammer
essence fairness
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
essence decision political
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making. Bob Woodward
essence cotton sophisticated
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. Eartha Kitt
essence enemy age
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old. Bernard Baruch
essence far found life lyricist quite talents wonderful
As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door. Lesley Gore
essence civilization tribes
... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
essence bears virtue
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. William Shenstone
essence essence-of-beauty
The essence of all beauty, I call love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
essence people democracy
The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. Edwin Land
essence justice mercy
The essence of justice is mercy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
essence prejudice symptoms
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen
essence transcendentalism form
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. Avicenna
essence existence
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
essence existence
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
essence democracy transcendentalism
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov
essence needs care
We all need to be reminded to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible. Arianna Huffington
essence able iceberg
The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
essence credit may
Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away. Anthony Trollope
essence
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. Demi Moore
essence culture losing
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence. Dana Gioia