Browsing Topic Best Essentials Quotes

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I heard a voice that told me I’m essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it’s time to step into the light and use every bit of power I have inside.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it’s essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals – they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

I’m not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It’s just a bit wrong! I don’t find it sexy. I prefer essential oils – patchouli is nice.

Stillness is your essential nature.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed.

It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

The soul gives us resilience – an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Something of the hermit’s temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

Paint the essential character of things.

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. … One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas… Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.