A Quote by Jane Austen

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
British - Novelist
December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Gottfried Leibniz

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Mark Thomas

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

Frederick Lenz

Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

Kay Arthur

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas de Quincey

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Gottfried Leibniz

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Love is the very essence of the gospel.

Thomas S. Monson

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Leo Buscaglia

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

Olivia Newton-John

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

M. F. K. Fisher

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Herbert M. Shelton

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.