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“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.”

World Reality Perfect Existence Teach Yoga Essence Clean Glasses Penetrate Inner World Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”

Perfect Grace Example Ordinary Essence Miracle Shining Everyday Meant To Be Ordinary Life

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.”

Knows Perfect Glory Essence Absolutes Infinite Unlimited Dominion Transcendent

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.”

Giving Mind Ideas Whole Perfect Essence Excellence Simplicity Worthy Sentences Finished Remembered Merit Glorious Volume Composition Few Words Great Minds Single Sentence

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”

World Firsts Philosophy Reality Form Perfect Pure Essence Sorry Including Lovely Planes Pope Plato Mud Transcendent Muddy

Author:N.D. Wilson

“The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.”

Thinking Men Lasts Realizing Perfect Love Is Common Products Activity Degrees Essence Motive Resolve Finite Common Ground Dealings Perfect Love

Author:Frank C. Lockwood

“Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.”

Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons

“What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."”

“Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.”

World Way Soul Helping Use Body Able Spiritual Values Goal Perfect Discipline Training Essence Finals Defense Your Body Your Soul Judo Spiritual Strength

Author:Kano Jigoro

“Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.”

Men Giving May Ends America Fighting Nations Perfect Known Trouble Giving Up Essence Oppressed Never Giving Up Beacons Fighting For Freedom

Author:Ronald Reagan

“We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.”

Men Heart Persons Happens Fall Perfect Personality Conflict Ego Essence Unity Karma Things Happen Fearless Cosmos Stomach Transition Objectivity Subjectivity

Author:Oscar Ichazo

“The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.”

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams