Agatha Christie Quotes, Essence Quotes, Trying Quotes

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

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Simplicity is the essence of universality.

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

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The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

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The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

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