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“I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.”

Men Years Enough Character Remember Spirit Mother Felt Compassion Minutes He Man Mets Essence Blessed Incredibles Privilege Charm Warmth Pope His Love Charisma John Paul Pope John Paul

Author:Cary Elwes

“The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.”

Way Done Wish Felt Hurt Clear Essence Manners Good Man Evident Good Manners

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

“love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.”

Looks Force Felt Love Is Common Wonder Understood Essence Dues Subtle Metaphysical Torment Fever Sufferers Indefinable

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.”

Different Moving Felt Class College Grew Grew Up Essence Towns Moved Miles Posts Southern Working Class Belts Different Place Rust Baltimore

Author:David Simon

“The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.”

Soul Matter Felt Capacity Essence My Soul Borders Bowls Dross

Author:Thomas Traherne

“A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.”

Way Want Firsts Kind Has Beens Said Turns Felt Religious Deals Doubt Essence Sight Myth Tendencies No Doubt Legends Love At First Sight Precise Retrospective Religious Truth Clairvoyance

Author:Milan Kundera

“I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.”

I Can Enough Feelings Pain Jesus Felt Sin Pay Lord Sacrifice Blood Essence Add Accepted Guilty Insult Good Enough Unnecessary Forgiven Not Good Enough Feeling Guilty

Author:Joyce Meyer

“She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.”

Fall Felt Illusion Essence Remains Glasses Streams Ecstatic Alabama Spun

Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.”

Ifs Soul Might Night Felt Struggle Eternal Doctors Essence Scientist Mad My Soul Worried Demon Life And Death Entering Cunning Ufo Doctor Who Me Alone Starks Legendary

Author:Whitley Strieber

“That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.”

People Knows World Want Art Ideas Real Felt Voice Rocks Fine Involved Essence Entertainment Real Life Motivated Relevant Rock N Roll Vitality Fine Arts Showbiz

Author:Debbie Harry

“I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.”

Giving Jobs Games Winning Felt Player Succeed Basketball Essence Coaches Backgrounds Coaching Basketball Game

Author:Bobby Knight

“I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.”

Body Song Felt Journey Couple Needed Essence Albums Titles Working It Capture Catchy Fillers

Author:Vanessa Carlton

“It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.”

Mind Said Facts Suffering Felt Teaching Discipline Essence Undisciplined

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.”