The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

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

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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