467 Quotes About Essentials

If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives. ("Dirty bike)

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

When we take the trouble to look at what is unfolding in front of our eyes, we may recognize instances awakening the wisdom slumbering on the fringes of our inner world. If we fuel our imagination, new and old essentials can converge to a dawning awareness. (“I seek you”)

The essentials: air, food, water, sleep, leisure, exercise, solitude, companionship. The inessentials: everything else.

A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.

The simplest actions are the essential ones.

If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again", )

Never confuse luxury with necessity.

Toilet paper, masks and disinfectant hand wipes were the COVID-19 essentials.