Quotes of: Essential Keyword

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The Importance Of Living

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Killosophy

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

Killosophy

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

Sufi Thought and Action

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

Manic: A Memoir

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Like Water for Chocolate

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

Lover Mine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The Little Prince

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,

Manhood for Amateurs

Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.

Power Through Prayer

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings