“What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” MayOrderBeautySkinsEssenceBasesCleanUnityUglyBonesSkin DeepBeauty Is Skin DeepBeauty Is Only Skin DeepBeauty Skin Deep Author:Dorothy Parker
“Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!” MayLightHeavenHolyEternalEssenceEternityTheeBeamOffspringHailHoly Light Book:The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons Source: The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons
“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.” NeedsMayWishNaturePeriodsUnderstoodEssenceYieldIncubation Author:Paul Gauguin
“The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.” MayPlayFeelingsHappensOkayEssenceOpennessWhatever HappensPlayfulness Author:John Cleese
“The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.” MayBodyLightTeacherEssenceEternityEnlightenedBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.” MayWarStatesGreaterCitizensEssenceDetailsBarbarismInhumanityRelapse Author:Christian Nestell Bovee