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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Transcendentalism

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• The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Life, Experience

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• In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

  Roy H. Williams

  Music, Light, Space

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Ingratitude

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• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Love, Success, Succeed

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

  Henri Matisse

  Painting, Form, Interruptions

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• Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Bird, Labels

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 18, 2015

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• If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

  Darren Johnson

  Lost Love, Sight, Needs

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Let It Go

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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• Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

  Rumi

  Speak, Sufi Love, Seeking

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• The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Smile, Blessing, Boredom

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Love is the very essence of life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love, Pot Of Gold, Love Life

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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• The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Giving, Different, Belief

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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• The essence of good government is trust.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Government, Transcendentalism

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• 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

  Food, Men, Taste

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• The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

  Michael Porter

  Trying, Limits, Strategy

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Suffering

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Reality

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Past, Politics, Adherence

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

  George Orwell

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  Shooting an Elephant 'Reflections on Gandhi'

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• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Butterfly, Creatures, Ifs

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Silly

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