Distills The Essence Quotes & Sayings

Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don't forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don't let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs. — Rachel Brathen

Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart. — Karen Marie Moning

The gamble is everything, and losing means death. The odds are more than a million to one against success. — Hope Jahren

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol. — Billy Squier

Is it possible, finally, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We — Haruki Murakami

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell. — Mary Shelley