Quotes about Essence

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.