Essential Things Quotes

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

Everything that's important - you can take with you.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

I can live without football. There are more important things in life.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

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.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.