Quotes about Essence
No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
- Jay-Z
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
- Victor Hugo
A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.
- Victor Hugo
Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.
- Victor Hugo
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
- LM Montgomery
Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.
- Rick Warren
We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.
- Wayne Dyer
It is the marvel of the work of the Holy Spirit that those who really respond to the proclamation of reconciliation claim no merit whatsoever for that response, but rather find the essence of their joy in God, who reconciled us unto himself.
- GC Berkouwer
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
- Bruce Lee
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
- Bruce Lee
Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness.
- Bruce Lee
And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
- Herman Melville