Top 90 Life Essentials Quotes
#1. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
#2. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#3. And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Richard Avedon
#4. Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want
John Whitmore
#5. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
J.D. Greear
#7. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
George Leonard
#8. I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.
David Petersen
#9. I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
#10. Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.
Jonathan Cainer
#11. What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Rudy Giuliani
#12. Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
Columba Stewart
#13. Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
Jonas Mekas
#14. There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
Spencer W. Kimball
#15. Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.
Joseph Bernardin
#16. I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
M. Russell Ballard
#17. Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.
Ivan Illich
#18. Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
Kiki Dimoula
#19. Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.
Scot McKnight
#20. If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
Henri Nouwen
#21. Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
George Orwell
#22. Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
Jean Rhys
#23. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.
Mitch Albom
#24. Living in a fairly remote village one soon learns to accept that having a roof, a fire, some warm clothes and enough to eat are really the only material essentials for a comfortable life.
Vernon Coleman
#25. Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.
Ralph Marston
#26. We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#27. The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
David O. McKay
#28. All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.
Duane Elgin
#30. You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.
Eckhart Tolle
#31. ... the garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live vy simply - but with all the essentials of life well understood & well provided for - hot baths, cold champagne, new peas, & old brandy.
Winston S. Churchill
#32. You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
Katherine Dunham
#33. When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.
Antoni Tapies
#34. The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Eknath Easwaran
#36. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
#37. In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words
liberty, equality, and fraternity
do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#38. It wasn't what I'd characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.
Haruki Murakami
#39. The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
Tony Kushner
#40. The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.
Frederick Lenz
#41. That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
Anais Nin
#42. We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#43. If you live in Boston, Samuel Adams draft beer (Summer Ale) and Dunkin' Donuts are essentials of life. But I discovered to my delight that even these indulgences can be offset by persistent exercise.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
#46. Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
Julia Child
#47. The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?
Judith Ellen Foster
#48. Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from ... the more essential things that I was ignoring.
Richard Ashcroft
#49. Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.
Nancy Etcoff
#50. Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
Madonna Ciccone
#51. Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
Harry Vardon
#52. In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
Dallas Willard
#54. What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
Dani Shapiro
#55. The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms ... Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
Seamus Heaney
#56. Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
William C. Dement
#57. It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living ... Music is essential for my life.
Armin Van Buuren
#58. Children, if we can do archana of the 1000 Names of the Divine Mother daily with devotion, we will grow spiritually. There will never be lack of life's essentials, food and clothing, in a family that chants the 1000 Names with devotion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#59. Kindness, laughter, and love are essentials for a good life. Everything else is negotiable.
Lisbeth Darsh
#60. Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
Agnes Repplier
#61. A Taoist is a man who does only that which is absolutely necessary. His life is almost like a telegram.
Osho
#63. In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
Antonio Banderas
#64. The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.
Jack W. Hayford
#65. I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
Iris Apfel
#66. The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
Charles Stanley
#67. The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
Plato
#68. The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
Josephine Hart
#69. A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
Charles Lindbergh
#70. States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.
Pope Francis
#71. To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Matthieu Ricard
#72. An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.
Sue Thoele
#74. The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#75. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
Carl Jung
#76. Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
Dolly Parton
#77. The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.
James Allen
#78. The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.
Orhan Pamuk
#79. The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.
Michael Hersch
#80. Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.
Daniel Goleman
#81. Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.
Richard Rohr
#83. Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
Yann Martel
#84. Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.
Pope Francis
#85. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
Lee Iacocca
#86. A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#88. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
Alexander Hamilton
#90. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
Kofi Annan
