#Essence Quotes

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”

“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour which doth in it live.”

“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”

“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”

“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”

“Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.”

“Love is nothing other than finding the truth.”

“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”

“Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle”

“What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?”

“I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.”

“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.”

“Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.”

“The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.”

“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.”

“Though leaves are many, the root is one.”

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”

“In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.”

“The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form”

“In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.”

“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”

“The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.”

“Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.”

“The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.”

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadowof your love, that somehow containsthe entire universe.”

“You think the shadow is the substance.”

“Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.”

“Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.”

“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”

“There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.”

“If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.”

“The rose is a rose,And was always a rose.But the theory now goesThat the apple's a rose,And the pear is, and so'sThe plum, I suppose.The dear only knowsWhat will next prove a rose.You, of course, are a rose -But were always a rose.”

“You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.”

“The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.”

“Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.”

“The more technique there is, the less there is”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”

“Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.”

“Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.”

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.”

“Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.”

“Blood is a very special juice.”

“Simplicity is the essence of universality.”