Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya AngelouTags: strength persistence inspiration courage virtue goodness determination self-reliance consistency character essence ethos fortitude life-lessons resolve virtues
Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind.
Tags: inspirational passion living stillness essence tao ineffable loving
It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.
Dan ChaonTags: judgment essence image caricature degradation exaggeration humiliation
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
Lao TzuMelody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartTags: music proverb essence italian melody
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
AristotleTags: energy mind essence life-lessons
It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.
Susan QuinnIs it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
Tags: friendship love people philosophy thought possibility essence important
[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.
Tiffany MadisonTags: love power humanity nature mind selfish human-nature human human-condition violence illusion essence schopenhauer challenge redemption instinct lover flaw species instincts violent overpower procreation schopenhauer-as-educator
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
Vera NazarianTags: future road meaning essence significance the-road destination horizon point gist the-point
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