Essence Quotes - Page 38

• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Mind

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• The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  God, Glory, Divine

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10

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• It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Want, Paint

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.165, D & M Publishers

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• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

  Cary Elwes

  Mother, Blessed, Character

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• The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.

  Morris Graves

  Art, Journey, Men

  "Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir". Published by University of Washington Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

  Yves Klein

  Form, Manifestation, Accord

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas - to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.

  Mathew Staver

  Christmas, Appreciation, Thinking

  "Gift rift: Evangelicals split over plan to ban presents" by Joe Garofoli, www.sfgate.com. December 24, 2005.

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• Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Views, Substance, Inquiring

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

  Aubrey Menen

  Mistake, Humorous, Thinking

  Aubrey Menen (2010). “Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged”, p.691, Penguin UK

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• When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Fighting, Political, Half

  "Zionism and the Palestinians". Book by Simha Flapan, June 7, 1938.

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• To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

  Pythagoras

  Soul, Words Of Wisdom, Purpose

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• Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Eye, World, Wonderful

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.24, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Lying, Integrity

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, May

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• The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

  George Will

  Liberty, Democracy, Matter

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reality, Self, Simplicity

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Practice, Profound

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• You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Reality, Awareness

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• Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love Is, Strands

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• If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Existence, Ifs

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• Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Glasses

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• If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Reaching, Mankind

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.80, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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