Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alvin Ailey

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Ambrose Bierce

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Alicia Keys

I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

Allen Ginsberg

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Allan Bloom

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Andrea Dworkin

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Jane Smiley

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Boethius

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Boethius

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

Bode Miller

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Bruce Coville

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Barry Hannah

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Eckhart Tolle

When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness. Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself! Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Eckhart Tolle

You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.

Eckhart Tolle

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.

Eckhart Tolle

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Eckhart Tolle

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

Eckhart Tolle

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

Eckhart Tolle

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

Bob Woodward

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

Eartha Kitt

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

David Brin

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.

Ben Stiller

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Arnold J. Toynbee

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Edwin Land

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.