Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations.   Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.

- Leo Babauta, The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

- Sunday Adelaja

Government is essentially immoral.

- Herbert Spencer

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

- Pierre Trudeau

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

- Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

- Aristotle

Freedom is essential to the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is essential to artistic evolution and expression. Freedom is essential to the expansion of the human mind. Freedom is essential to the development and application of basic humanitarianism.Freedom is essential to the creation of an individual's will, motivations, preferences, and unique talents. In essence, freedom is essential to the success and progress of humanity.

- Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

- Steven Magee

To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.

- Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual