Quotes about Essence
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
- Marianne Williamson
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
Love is the very essence of life.
- Gordon Hinckley
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
- Ernest Hemingway
Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us. That is the essence of the gospel: to do exactly what Jesus did and destroy the works of the devil.
- Bill Johnson
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
What you seek, you already are.
- Deepak Chopra
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Love is real, real is love.
- John Lennon
Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart.
- Max Lucado