39 Quotes About Essence

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami

Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need. C. Joybell C.

Some souls are just ...There.They are a constant in your world. You know, no matter what, they will remain. Intrinsically woven into the fabric of your life, inexplicably connected, you are drawn to their intoxicating essence and it is there you will find your reflection staring back at you. Such is love between soul mates... Virginia Alison

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history. Christopher Pike

We all must travel, ' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead. Nnedi Okorafor

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

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur. Lita Burke

A time past is an essence gone Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. Idries Shah

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others. Miranda J. Barrett

You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence. Bryant McGill

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. C.s. Lewis

Well, you know it’s my magic essence. -Mark Khiop AkutraRamses Atenosis Cea

The spirit partly lies in physical body, the rest of it is still waiting to be refitted. Toba Beta

When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence. Sunday Adelaja

The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things. Rajeev Kurapati

If you look up the meaning of healing you can find many different definitions. There’s the adjective, noun, and verb (with and without objects). For argument’s sake we will use the verb. Still there are many definitions. The one that fits here is to free from evil; cleanse; purify; to heal the soul. Free from evil, even if you didn’t know it was there. Mandi Lynn

...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel... John Geddes

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie. Karl Marx

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes). Milan Kundera

Eyes closed on an open soul...the world starts from within its core towards its final frontier: the end surface. Soar

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. Unknown

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. Idries Shah

What you reveal shows the essence of your teaching Sunday Adelaja

Has there ever been a night where you didn’t feel safe? Maybe you felt you were being watched? Or you couldn’t close your eyes for fear of the unknown? If, for only a moment, you let your guard down and hear a sound–unidentified and quiet–maybe it was all in your head. Never let your guard down. Mandi Lynn

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him seventy times seven skins, and not be able to say: “Here you truly are; there is skin no more.” Also this digging into oneself, this straight, violent descent into the pit of one’s being, is a troublesome and dangerous business to start. You may easily take such hurt, that no doctor can heal you. And what is the point: since everything bears witness to our essence – our friendships and enmities, our looks and greetings, our memories and forgetfulnesses, our books and our writing!. Friedrich Nietzsche

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was:' What do you think I am, stupid, or something? Idries Shah

All longings the essence for real liberation only, Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;- 43 - Munindra Misra

At the end of the day, you should try to remember that it's not about the number of followers you have or the numbers of likes, comments, and shares your posts are getting. It's the number of people who will be present in the hospital room when you fall terribly sick. It's the number of people who will remember your birthday like they remember their first name. It's the number of people who will invite you to celebrate Christmas or new year's eve. It's the number of people who will actually show up to look at your newborn child or to bless your newly bought house. It's the number of people who will actually cross an ocean to see your face. It's the number of people who will wipe your tears when one of your parents passes away. It's the number of people who will make a slightly larger than a thumb effort to be there for you. Malak El Halabi

Quickness is the essence of the war. Sun Tzu