Quotation Explorer - 'Essence'

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. - Deborah Day
In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. - Ralph Harris
Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs. - Veronika Jensen
The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit. - Lee G. Bolman
Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the essence of experiences. - Debasish Mridha
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. - H.L. Mencken
That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. - Confucius
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. - Andrea Dworkin
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
The essence of leadership is not to portray yourself as some sort of know-it-all, but your ability to develop the people you are working with so they themselves can take the initiative and do the organizational drive. - Pat Chambers
People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence - Goitsemang Mvula
the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana
Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less. - Donna Lynn Hope
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Anthony Robbins
The moment you stand by an abuser and choose to remain silent you become an abuser also. In essence, you are telling God that your comfort is more important that speaking out for what is right and true. - Shannon L. Alder
Spirituality is not about being God, but about being your self. God is an imagination. Self is already that - one with all and within all. Self is the essence l, the source and the manifestation too. What else is God? - Rashmit Kalra
The essence of existence is experience. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life. - Debasish Mridha
Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life. - Debasish Mridha
If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essence warns youdont follow my pathto extinction - Allen Ginsberg
Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence. - Tony Samara
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. - Oprah Winfrey
If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy. - Manprit Kaur
We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness. - Nathaniel Branden
Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of something! Think of growth for that is the whole essence of life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message. - Rashmit Kalra
Ամբողջ մարմնի կենդանութիւնը հոգին է, իսկ մարմինն ու հոգին կառավարողը՝ միտքն է:The whole essence of the body is the spirit, while the governor of both spirit and body is the mind. - Saint Vardapet Eghishē
Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breaths mingle as one. Turn liquid for me. Only for me. Bury your essence inside of my soul. - Christina Lee
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy. - Imran Khan
As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia. - Unknown British Biologist
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. - Henry Miller
When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence. - Sunday Adelaja
Playfulness, dear friends, is what manifests love. Love is not manifested through serious survivability, seriousness, stabilility. Love, the essence of love, manifests itself through playfulness. - Réné Gaudette
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. - Viktor Frankl
Curiosity is the essence of our existence. - Gene Cernan
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. - Unknown
We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life. - Debasish Mridha
We have started a journey since our birth and yet,we have to travel a lot.Just like a river keep flowing into the ocean because of its essence,we are an essence of time traveling with its wit and bit. - Sachin Panwar
It is imperative you stay in touch with your inner self so you don’t lose the essence of who you truly are. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment. - Matthew Fox
You can't feel the essence of Happiness unless you overcome your Sadness. - Mohith Agadi
Love brings joy and happiness. Happiness is life’s essence. - Debasish Mridha
The essence of life change when we admire our teachers kindneess. - Kishore Bansal
Whatever happens in life happens to make you stronger. So fear not, accept it as a gift from the universe. Use the event to capture the essence of this journey we call life. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality. - Debasish Mridha
For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. - Plato
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
What's the matter, fairy boy? Pissed because Chrys rather kiss me?" - Essence (Nymphs of Macedonia Trilogy #1) - Racheal Renwick
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies. - Ron Paul
Poetry is the essence and evidence of life. - Debasish Mridha
A time past is an essence gone - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society - Sunday Adelaja
The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy. - Tony Samara
Trusted relationships are the essence of a brand - Bernard Kelvin Clive
The expression of preferences is the essence of love. - Stefan Molyneux
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. - Thomas Carlyle
The essence of greatness is service to others. - Debasish Mridha
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. - Bruce Coville
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. - Mike Myers
Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. - E. M. Forster
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists. - William Salter
I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed. - Sharon Nir
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی
If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him. - Ron Brackin
Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it. - John Piper
The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature. - Enza Vita
How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way? - Elizabeth Berg
Music is the perfect reminder of our essence; the vibration of strings - Budel
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory. - Marjorie Garber
You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal... - Dave Zebian
To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home. - JR Rim
A dream is sacred essence of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the essence, charm, and beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha
the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile. - Debasish Mridha
Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.Poetry causes the increase of the human race.Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.Poetry is the royal essence of beauty. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
To live a worthy life, just love. Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile. - Debasish Mridha
Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success. - Debasish Mridha
True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior. - Michael Bassey Johnson
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. - Ayn Rand
God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time. - Sarvesh Murthi .D.D
The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living. - Theodore M. Hesburgh
Existence precedes and rules essence. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Love is the very essence of life.
Love is the essence of life. Without love, life does not make any sense. - Debasish Mridha
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh
Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love. - Debasish Mridha
....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning. - Thomas Merton
The soul is everlasting. It does not change. Live from your soul essence. Dare to embrace your true, full beauty. Live in GRACE! - Angie karan
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus
Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions. - Dada Bhagwan
In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail. - Czesław Miłosz
Uniconsciousness is the ultimate purpose and ultimate essence of a higher consciousness. The knowledge of the ultimate source of life and the ultimate source of non-judgmental love and consciousness can achieve higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
The essence if hope is accepting uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha
A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence. - Debasish Mridha
Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence - AainaA-Ridtz
Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence. - Nancy J. Napier
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. - Thomas Moore
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception - Agatha Christie
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore M. Hesburgh
Success is living your essence. - Sharif Khan
Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul? - Andrew Davidson
Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. - Victor LaValle
The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom. - Michelle Franklin
I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?. - Gugu Mona
The essence of life does not consist in the lushness of your possessions, but in the richness of your heart. - Roy T. Bennett
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. - Ben Shahn
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. - Ludwig von Mises
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all. - Isaac Asimov
Love is the source, power, essence, and evidence of life. - Debasish Mridha
If you judge art by its cover, then you efface the very essence of it - Evy Michaels
Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God. - David G. Wells
The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby - Priyavrat Thareja
The very essence of your true self is the ability to recognize what you think is not always what you may feel.The heart is the slave~bns - Bluenscottish
Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind’s eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence. - Debasish Mridha
The essence of communication is intention. - Werner Erhard
What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence. - Minor White
The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning. - Ka Chinery
The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation. - Debasish Mridha
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. - James Madison
In essence, Religion retards the brain - Andrea L'Artiste
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not. - Ashton Kutcher
Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience. - Debasish Mridha
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 - Jenna Cornell
The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. - M. Scott Peck
Your heart is where your inner light resides. It is part of every sacred journey to reconnect with your inner light, step into your divinity, spread the light of love before you, return to the essence of love, and inspire others to do the same. - Molly Friedenfeld
Love is the source of all creation; happiness is the essence of all action. - Debasish Mridha
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always take comfort in your sweet and innocent, childish manifestations, because the day you lose that essence, that glorious eccentricity, the yearning and longing to investigate all that surrounds you in this vast and wondrous world, is the day your soul shall die. - Amelia Dashwood
The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. - Vernor Vinge
First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions. - Gautama Buddha
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress. - Muriel Barbery
The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. - Jean de La Bruyère
What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within. - Tim Macartney-Snape
Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience. - Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the royal essence of beauty. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey
To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding - Stephan Labossiere
To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. - Kaela Marooney
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.
Just because you don’t know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn’t mean you shouldn’t allow yourself to really, really want it. That’s the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles. - Silvia Hartmann
Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose. - Roopleen
She was a mystery, personal in her journey but social in her seek; you wouldn't believe the depth in her heart until the day you felt her essence, for the very first time. - Nikki Rowe
Everyone is unique in every essence. Love binds us together in every sense. - Debasish Mridha
For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives. - Amy Lowell
Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger. - Joss Whedon
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! - Abhijeet Sawant
Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won’t make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Difference is the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth, and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity. - John Hume
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it. - Vince Lombardi Jr.
You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it. - Jimmy Page
The way we sink into each other. The way I can’t tell mu heartbeat from yours. We have this perfect rhythm, whenever we’re together, and that’s the essence of us. - Leisa Rayven
The Essence Of Success Is Leading Your Business & Life From The Heart - Marieke Stoop
More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world. - John Christopher
Self-trust is the essence of heroism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by Prayer and Fasting." -Mark 9:29 It seems like many times we miss the whole essence of Fasting and Prayer, perhaps because we have started becoming comfortable with "This Kind". - Santosh Thankachan
Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name. - Richelle E. Goodrich
True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do’s and don’ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! - Dew Platt
When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory - Marcel Proust
Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. - R. Buckminster Fuller
A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence. - Debasish Mridha
On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow. - Dorit Brauer
Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love. - Angelica Hopes
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven! - John Keats
The essence of life: be good to all souls like you seek them to be good to your soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. - Karl Marx
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. - H.L. Mencken
The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing. - John Dunne
Love is the essence of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. - Heather Armstrong
I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel - Trevor Dennis
The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own. - Robin Alleyna
The very essence of love is uncertainty. - Oscar Wilde
The essence of life is love, and that is my wealth and influence. - Debasish Mridha
Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved. - Debasish Mridha
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence. - Israelmore Ayivor
the sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love is the essence of life and ultimate attractive energy behind all creation. - Debasish Mridha
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Balance - the essence of living a life of beauty. - Nikki Rowe
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. - Thomas Carlyle
One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~ - Bobby Adair Compton
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. - Joseph Conrad
The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light. - Daniel Lee Edstrom
If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The essence if love is selfless giving. - Debasish Mridha
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement. - Colby Dorr Dam
do not rid the world of darkness.. for it is what preaches the essence of light - Devjeet Chawdhary
He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. - Noam Chomsky
The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly. - Eberhard Jüngel
Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. - Glen Cook
Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping. - Doug Dillon
open science is returning science to its true essence - Mayank Trivedi
The very essence of life is to love and very essence of love is to be beloved. - Debasish Mridha
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