“Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.” PeopleKindNextLevelsEssenceHotWitNext Level Author:Will Smith
“When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.” MayDreamLightSpiritualNextPathShadowEssenceGuidesSunsetFadesTwilightAwakenedRadiantFade AwayInner Light Author:Surya Das
“Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.” PeopleKnowsWorldGivingLittlesEnoughBigsKidsNightNextNamesGoneCryOne DayFairsStandingEssenceLike MeKitchenAddressesMy SisterAbandonedIncidentsPolicemenBakersStanding ThereMidget Author:Maurice Sendak
“I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.” PeopleWantUseLightAmericaNextBlackLevelsDestinyResearchEssenceFinishedDataExcellentRanExecutivesEnslavementBlack AmericaShowdowns Author:Julianne Malveaux
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” WorldHeartLittlesEyeYoungTimeFallNextLosesKnowledgeLearningTakenIgnoranceFoolTravelEssenceDown AndFalling In LoveRichesNewspapersWanderFinding YourselfOpennessTime TravelGlobesTraveledTravelerAccommodateLosing YourselfInspiring TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelSeeing The WorldRoads TraveledWant To TravelTravel AbroadLearning MoreTravel BugTravel And CultureDispersionYou Live And Learn Author:Pico Iyer
“You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.” PeopleKnowsBelieveHumansCareRunningThreeNextGamesBeliefForgetMagicSacrificeBecomingOne DayEssenceThirdsBiggerHorseDon't BelieveDon't CareCornersCardsFortyBelieve In YouBroadwayThunder Author:Neil Gaiman
“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.” DifferentRomanceNextEssenceConvictionNext TimeUnshakable Book:The Many Deaths of the Black Company Source: The Many Deaths of the Black Company
“Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.” MenWellsHeartUseMightWould BeNextWaterPrayerAttentionArmsWeaponsTasksEssenceAccidentsLustSuperiorsWarriorTouchedWaveringMight Use Book:The Dovekeepers: A Novel Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.” LifePersonsMadeTodayNextWealthMoneyGenerationsEssenceFortuneLifetimeDisappearNext GenerationDuration Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.” ChildrenMomentsUseHappinessNextEnjoyChallengesWalksExistenceGratitudeLessonsBedSkillsEssentialsEssenceBreathsOur ChildrenMusclesI Have LearnedDeep BreathThe Next OneTake A Deep Breath Author:Marianne Williamson
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” HeartEyeYoungFallNextLosesTakenFoolTravelEssenceDown AndFalling In LoveWanderTime TravelTraveledTravelerInspiring TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelSeeing The WorldRoads TraveledWant To TravelTravel AbroadTravel BugTravel And CultureTravel And Love Author:Ray Bradbury
“Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.” RealPainLife IsNextLove IsPleasureEssenceThis LifeIslamicGlimpseReal ThingsHereafter Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.” BelieveKindPersonsMatterSpiritualNextCompassionKindnessEssenceToleranceBelieve In GodDay To DayTrue ReligionDay LifeDay To Day LifeNext LifeKind Person Author:Dalai Lama
“Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.” NextLeftMessagesEssenceHip HopRapLinguisticsHeadless Author:Action Bronson
“If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.” IfsWorldWayPersonsNextPeaceSeeingListeningEssenceVictimChanging The WorldCompassionate Author:Dennis Kucinich