Unessential Quotes

#1. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

#2. Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Kate Chopin

#3. Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.

Robert Pollok

#4. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Alexander Calder

#5. In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

James Russell Lowell

#6. If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

Robert Henri

#7. I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

Kate Chopin

#8. Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

Ralph Lauren

#9. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

#10. Be the help you seek from others.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Lolo Jones

#12. Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Elon Musk

#13. If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Barbara Park

#15. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Philippe Claudel