Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Rumi

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Rumi

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Esther Hicks

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Oppression is the essence of power.

Millicent Fenwick

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Milton Friedman

The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.

Martin Heidegger

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Neal A. Maxwell

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Leopold Stokowski

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Pope Benedict XVI

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

Terry Goodkind

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.

Shannyn Sossamon

I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.

Queen Rania of Jordan

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Radhanath Swami

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

Radhanath Swami

We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Haruki Murakami

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained the sublime essence of the Lord.

Eckhart Tolle

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Eckhart Tolle

Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.

Eckhart Tolle

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

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

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Hermann Hesse

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.