Essential Quotes
41 quotes
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
"Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this"
"The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry."
"If we can never possess the complete knowledge, then faith in the infinite potential must become an essential if not the necessary component of our path."
"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
"Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential."
"I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?"
"At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity..."
"There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land..."
"Different views are essential for progress"
"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself"
"What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth"
"Time is the essence of life"
"What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there."
"It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down"
"Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human’s destination"
"Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential"
"For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within"
"The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life."
"Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that’s how it is, we cannot."
"Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue."
"This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose"
"To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof."
"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them"
"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."
"Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to express ends up being the most secret of my secrets. I know that I'm scared of the moments in which I don't use thought and that's a momentary state that is difficult to reach, and which, entirely secret, no longer uses words with which thoughts are produce. Is not using words to lose your identity? is it getting lost in the harmful essential shadows?"
"Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!"
"Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later."
"Twilight …Not just a metaphorThe metaphor of the ‘spirit’The confluence of life and deathThe celestial dance of existential and essential(Page 75)"
"In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense"
"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction"
"That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose."
"If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators."
"A real secret is something which only one person knows."
"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this."
"It takes time, or does time take it?"
"To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree."
"I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom."
"So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation"
"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session."