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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -- Aristotle
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. -- Richard Dawkins
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. -- Guy de Maupassant
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. -- Denis Waitley
Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. -- Emmanuelle Riva
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. -- Sai Baba
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. -- Julius Caesar
Change is the essence of life. -- Anatole France
Movement is the essence of life. -- Bernd Heinrich
Love is the very essence of life. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Conflict is the very essence of life. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
The essence of life is in remembering God. -- Kabir
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. -- Aristotle
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give. -- William Arthur Ward
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now. -- Jean-Michel Cousteau
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. -- Deepak Chopra
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. -- William Feather
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. -- Susanna Kearsley
Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing. -- Bob Proctor
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. -- Jose Marti
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life. -- Anatole France
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. -- William Arthur Ward
Adventure is the essence of life -- Dick Rutan
Adventure is the essence of life. -- Dick Rutan
The essence of life is the power of love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that. -- Ivan Turgenev
Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy. -- Bob Hope
The essence of life change when we admire our teachers kindneess. -- Kishore Bansal
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth. -- Oscar Wilde
My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. -- Michael Dolan
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. -- Bertrand Russell
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. -- Joseph Joubert
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; -- Agnivesh
Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another. -- Ruslana Korshunova
The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself. -- Leopold Stokowski
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. -- Brooks Atkinson
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. -- Ivan Turgenev
We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. -- Charles Lindbergh
As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness. -- Vimala Thakar
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen. Mindfulness gives us the opportunity to work with the cosmic collaboration. -- Amit Ray
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
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
I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us. -- Mary Ellen Edmunds
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
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. -- Ang Lee
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence. -- Elif Safak
As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door. -- Lesley Gore
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. -- Jean Arp
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. -- Rudolf Rocker
Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth. -- Franz Boas
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting. -- George Benson
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. -- Charles Krauthammer
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. -- Alvar Aalto
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. -- Henri Bergson
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. -- Terry Goodkind
The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith. -- Joel Osteen
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. -- Gene Fowler
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. -- Georges Bataille
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. -- Annie Besant
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends. -- Adam Driver
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life. -- Kim Novak
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man. -- Annie Besant
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Being resilient is the essence of my life. -- Pom Klementieff
Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The essence of style is how you live your life -- Oscar de la Renta
Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life. -- Nicholas Sparks
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. -- Demi Moore
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. -- Albert Schweitzer
A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence. -- Debasish Mridha
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly. -- Radhanath Swami
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. -- Fernando Pessoa
My soul absorbs you, my mind inhales your essence, you confirm my life." -- Al Cash
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. -- Bruce Lee
The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away. -- Carlos Mencia
A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. -- Jan Struther
Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day! -- Jim Stovall
The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic. -- Juliet Marillier
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. -- Deborah Day
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. -- Wallace Stevens
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life -- Haruki Murakami
The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival. -- Helen Foster Snow
Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely. -- Cheshire Cat
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. -- Carl Jung
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are. -- Eckhart Tolle
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. -- Marion Woodman
In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people. -- Ferdie Pacheco
The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right. -- Anuj
I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity. -- Sheikh Abdullah
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within. -- Eckhart Tolle
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom. -- Georges Bataille
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture -- Alvar Aalto
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God! -- Thomas Carlyle
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. -- Abraham Maslow
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams. -- Charles Lindbergh
Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next. -- Yasmin Mogahed
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
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. -- William James
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. -- Joan Halifax
You are my life, my very essence,You are the air that I breathe,You are the key to my repentanceWhich I confess is not a breeze!" -- Tatyana K. Varenko
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing. -- Lady Gaga
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable -- Eva Hesse
With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made. -- Stephen Coonts
You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond). -- Christopher Reeve
At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose? -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it. -- Beryl Markham

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