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Summary
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- 1) : Love is essential.
- 2) : It is essential to have an ideal.
- 3) : The essential is within.
- 4) : Things to neglect
- 5) : Wisdom of the Essential
- 6) : Superfluous or essential
- 7) : The essence of life
- 8) : Other topics related to the essential
- Complementary topics
Quotes on Essential 1) : Love is essential.
Love, love, everything else is nothing. Jean de La Fontaine
Learning to give, being on the path of the heart gradually leads us to the essential.
I wish you to love what you love. To forget what to forget. Jacques Brel
The essential is that people are never perfect, but love can be. Tom Robbins
Love is an essential fact of existence. It is our ultimate reality, our ultimate purpose on earth. Marianne Williamson
You can only see it with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince, 1943)
We must first resolve the question of love, because nothing is more important than love and the way we love.
In my life, I have learned only one thing, which is love; I wish you only one thing, which is love. Epitaph of Louis Aragon
Human relationships based on mutual compassion and love are essential to the development of every human being.
Love is essentially the realm of the unconscious; it must be unreasonable. Francesco Picabia (Letters to Cristina, 1945-1951)
The only thing that the candle is worth in the long run is having adored it. Christiane Singer (Where You Were? You Do Not Know That Heaven Is Within You?)
Through love, it may happen that you carry and receive something essential, that you feel you are accomplishing the best in yourself. Pierre Grandpré
The adventure of love resembles a work of art, but in a different sense, love is deeply rooted in the heart of life and engages it as a whole in such an essential way that life can be transformed from bottom to top. Vladimir Jankelevich (Adventure, Boredom, Gravity, 1963)
Quotes on Essential 2) : It is essential to have an ideal.
The essential is the goal towards which we are heading, the ideal towards which we are working.
The main thing in this world is not where we are, but the direction in which we are walking. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Because you cannot experience everything, what matters is to live the essential, and each of us has their own “essential.” Mary Levy (What If It Were True…)
We always act as if comfort and luxury are essential to our existence, when it is enough to be truly happy to find and give ourselves a universal ideal. Charles Kingsley
Quotes on the Essential 3) :The Essential is within .
Let the importance be in your gaze, not in what it has looked at. André Gide
Never be afraid of losing something, for what can be lost cannot be the essential. Aryadeva
In the deafening incident of a feverish society, the essential is the inner questioning. Jean-Marie Pelt
The essential is not what is done to man, but what he makes of himself from what has been given to him. Jean-Paul Sartre
The main thing is never in what comes from outside, but in what you feel inside. Omraam Mikhaël Aivanhov
The essence of philosophy is that a man should live in such a way that his happiness depends as little as possible on external causes. Epictetus
Do as you wish, but one day, even amidst the greatest successes, you will feel that the main thing is tumors if you have not walked inside.
Society is a vast theatrical stage where comedies of all kinds are played, and these comedies should never make you forget that the essential is who you are within yourself, not the show you put on this stage. Omraam Mikhaël Aivanhov
Quotes on the essential 4) : Things to neglect
Better to lose wool than sheep. Italian proverb
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to ignore. William James
You must always know how to distinguish the essence from the trivial. David Ben Gurion
What bothers me owns me. Because it prevents me from thinking about the essential.
Do the important things first, and others not at all if they crush time.
What is important is rarely urgent and what is urgent is rarely important. Eisenhower
The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant. René Char (In a Crispy Serenity, 1955)
The things that matter most should not be at the mercy of those that matter least. Goethe
The hardest thing is not to attach importance to things that do not matter. Charles de Gaulle
By sacrificing the essential for the urgent, we end up forgetting the urgency of the essential. Edgar Morin (The Method, Ethics, 2004)
Every man will realize that one day he lost his best diamond while collecting useless stones.
We often spend a long time with problems on our path that we forget why we are this way in the first place. The result is that we have only a weak, even inaccurate, vision of what is truly important to us. Peter Senge
Quotes on Essential 5) : Wisdom of the Essential
I immediately put the accessory aside to focus on the main thing.
Only a few things really matter. Marie Dressler
It is essential to understand that we materially have everything we need.
The essential is not things, but the meaning of things. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The essential is wisdom, which allows you to use knowledge in a useful way. Leo Buscaglia
Most people fail at life because they specialize in minor tasks. Tony Robbins
The only difference between a wise man and an ordinary man is that the wise man knows how to recognize and face the essential.
There is a resolution that I constantly try to maintain: to rise above the small things that do not matter.
The essential is to be what nature makes us; we are always too much what men want us to be. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If man does not sometimes close his eyes too much, he would end up not seeing what is worth looking at. René Char (Fury and Mystery)
Nature is content with necessities, while the superfluous can never satisfy passion. Pierre-Jules Stahl (Reflections and Various Thoughts, 1841)
For those who are happy to live, the essential, if they are happy with the existence they lead, is to be content with their fate. Pierre Dac (Thoughts — Ed. du Cherche Midi, 1972)
Behind the noble art of doing things lies the noble art of abandoning certain things. The wisdom of life is to eliminate what is not essential to accomplish the essential. Yutang Lin
Our world today is caught in an increasing frenzy of activism, accumulation of wealth, when man needs very little to be happy. The essence of his happiness is not in his possessions, but in the peace of the soul. Frédéric Lenoir (Excerpt from The Soul of the World)
Quotes on Essential 6) : Superfluous or essential
What interests me is not always what matters to me. Paul Valery
It is unworthy to speak of the superfluous to those who are only necessary.
Anyone who can do without the superfluous is far superior to one who sacrifices much.
Removing the superfluous becomes positive and being rich in life. Jean Gastaldi (Positive Thinking, 48, 2001)
Whoever lacks the necessary does not think of obtaining the superfluous. Horace (The Discourses of Morality, I c.
Whoever dives into the superfluous one day cries for the necessary. Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (Thoughts and Maxims, 1791)
When certain goods, luxury items become objects of well-being, the superfluous becomes a need. Edgar Morin (Sociology, 1984)
The necessary and the superfluous are relative words that everyone translates according to their taste and position. Louis-Philippe de Ségur (The Four Ages of Life, 1816)
Happy people are those who prefer the essential to the accessory, being to having, the useful to the pleasant, the durable to the ephemeral, the sufficient to the too much, the necessary to the superfluous, making needs from desires. Robert Blondin (Possible Happiness, 1984)
Mediocre fortune is sufficient for our real needs; the rest is nothing more than ostentation and vanity. He loves us, no doubt, but what is the use of the superfluous? You are rich with few possessions when you know how to do useless things. Jean Baptiste Blanchard (Maxims of the Honest Man, 1772)
Quotes on the essential 7) : The essence of life
The essential is in the way of life.
The essential is to have a reason to live.
The essential is the occupation of life, not its duration. Seneca
The essential is not to live, but to live well. Plato (Dialogue of Crito)
The essential is not what you acquire in life, but what you learn.
The essence of a life is made of human relationships that we have been able to make constructive.
I have learned a lot in my life, but I am still searching for the essential. Jacques Salomée
Having character means having beliefs about the essential things in life. Emmet Fox
Every situation in life is a privileged opportunity to lead us to the essential. Eric Baret
The essential for the happiness of life is what we have within ourselves. Arthur Schopenhauer (Happiness)
And if so, lose your life; ask yourself the essential questions a little too late? Gilbert Caesbron
Life is too short to consume the best part in useless things. Pierre-François GuyotdesFontaines
Life is a perpetual distraction that does not even allow you to understand what it distracts from. Franz Kafka
Life teaches us that everything that is truly worth doing is what we do in service to others. Lewis Carroll
The important thing in life is not triumph, but the battle. The essential is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
The essential things in life are: to have something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Thomas Chalmers
Your judgment, your mind, your life are perverted by things that have no value, which is a source of pain. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The best things in life are invisible; that is why we close our eyes when we kiss, when we cry, and when we dream.
This fear of not having everything in life makes you lose everything. It prevents you from reaching the essential. Etty Hillesum
The essence of man is the human being; this is what we forget too much in today’s society. Henri-Frederic Amiel (Journal, October 11, 1872)
As soon as you start working on the essential, what you do takes on a different meaning for you. And you come to a better understanding of what life really is.
If we only live through the eyes of others and do not try to capture the vibration of our individual experience, we may lose the light and the ray of authenticity that are essential for progress in life. Erik Pevernagie
It is… the essential that interests me, that is to say how to live, how to behave, how to love, etc. It is the essence, the science of life. All other sciences can come after, but as information, for documentary purposes. Omraam Michael Aivanhov
Quotes on Essential 8) : Other essential topics
The essential is sometimes not what you believe.
The main thing has never needed the slightest talent. Emil Michel Cioran (On the Disadvantage of Birth, 1973)
Always postponing the quest for the essential, we risk letting life slip through our fingers.
It is often necessary to experience difficult things to take care of the essential things in life. Roland Albert
The main thing, do not know how to predict it. Each of us has experienced the warmest joys where nothing promised them. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The main thing, most often, has no weight. The main thing here, apparently, was just a smile. A smile is often the main thing. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Complementary topics:
- Knowing how to discriminate the important from the trivial
- Life decisions
- Expectations for life
- Truth about the meaning of life
- Do not be too perfectionist
- Quotes on unidirectional actions
do not predict it. Each of us has experienced the warmest joys where nothing promised them. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The main thing, most often, has no weight. The main thing here, apparently, was just a smile. A smile is often the main thing. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Note: Quotes without an author are anonymous or the author cannot be identified. Write to me if you know the authors in question: Denis.St‑Pierre @evolution ‑101.com
Complementary topics:
- Knowing how to discriminate the important from the trivial
- Life decisions
- Expectations for life
- Truth about the meaning of life
- Do not be too perfectionist
- Quotes on having
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