Essence Quotes - Page 31

• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Real, Perfect, Theatre

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Conspiracy, Cripples

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Capture, My Time

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• Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Friend, Long, Sticks

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• In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Kings, Military

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• Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Single Mom, Thinking, Mind

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• Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Moving, People, Water

  Pablo Amaringo (2014). “Ayahuasca Visions”, CreateSpace

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• Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

  Dziga Vertov

  Art, Technique, Who Cares

  Dziga Vertov (1984). “Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

  Susan Wiggs

  Wall, Men, People

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• I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

  Lena Dunham

  Memories, Night, Sick

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.176, Random House

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• The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Feet, Elderly

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

  Havelock Ellis

  Struggle, Together, Conflict

  Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”

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• The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Mean, Men

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• One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

  Shaun Tomson

  Expression, Surfing, Heard

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.134, Gibbs Smith

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• The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe.

  Yoshiko Sakurai

  Believe, Japan, People

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• All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

  Saadi

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

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• Women who understand how powerful they are do not give into envy over meaningless things, instead they fight to maintain the beautiful bond of the sisterhood. These are the real women who know that we need each other's love & support to survive in this world. Love is the essence of being a woman. We must be that light of love that seals the bond & unique beauty of our sisterhood.

  Bindu

  Beautiful, Powerful, Real

  "Time to Put the ‘Sister’ Back in ‘Sisterhood’" by Sophia A. Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2013.

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• If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.

  Garchen Rinpoche

  Teaching, Practice, Empowerment

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Ocean, Eye

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

  Israel Zangwill

  Spiritual, Art, Struggle

  Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”

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• Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Adversity, Growth

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• When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.

  Frieda Lawrence

  Blue, Feelings, Religion

  Frieda Lawrence (2017). “Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  David Brin

  Patterns, Emotion, Argument

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• The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Play, Roles, Saving

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Religious, Compassion

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