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• 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

  Life, Moving, Past

  Susanna Kearsley (2009). “Mariana”, p.218, Allison & Busby

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• 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

  Mean, Essence, Opposites

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• Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

  George Benson

  Song, Essence, Lasting

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• 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

  Change, Regret, Life Changing

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• 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

  God, Essence, Consciousness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.61, A&C Black

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• The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Essence, Formulas

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.

  Michael Dolan

  Life, Essence, My Friends

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• Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Water Of Life, Essence, People

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• The essence of life is in remembering God.

  Kabir

  Essence, Remembering God, Life Is

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• Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Expression, Essence

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.106, Penguin

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• A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside. This was the way Natasha's wound healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly her love for her mother showed her that the essence of life - love - was still alive in her. Love awoke, and life awoke.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mother, Spiritual, Love Life

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• The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Essence, Growth, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.13, Oscar Wilde

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• Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Essence

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• Adventure is the essence of life.

  Dick Rutan

  Adventure, Essence

  "U.S. balloonists forced down shortly after launch". www.cnn.com. January 9, 1998.

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• The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Essence, Soul

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• Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Memories, Flower

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• I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.

  John Gutmann

  Art, Believe, Essence

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• I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

  Agatha Christie

  Essence, Trying, Way

  Agatha Christie (1982). “At Bertram's Hotel”, Pocket

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• Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.

  Agnivesh

  God, Essence, Joy

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Honesty, Essence, Mind

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• Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

  William Feather

  Business, Mistake, Selfish

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• For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Essence, Liberty

  "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.

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

  Leopold Stokowski

  Essence, Highest, Core

  Leopold Stokowski (1943). “Music for all of us”

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• Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.

  Ruslana Korshunova

  Essence, Giving

  "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.

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• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Essence, Perfect

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