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Unity is good, but conformity is not. Servitude is good, but slavery is not. Submission is good, but bondage is not. Individualism is good, but insubordination is not. Devotion is good, but radicalism is not. Loyalty is good, but sycophancy is not. Risk is good, but irresponsibility is not. Courage is good, but unruliness is not. Calm is good, but cowardice is not. Caution is good, but panic is not. Coolness is good, but apathy is not. Composure is good, but shyness is not. Excitement is good, but agitation is not. Force is good, but cruelty is not. Might is good, but bullying is not. Mercy is good, but weakness is not. Sympathy is good, but frailty is not. Order is good, but oppression is not. Power is good, but despotism is not. Serenity is good, but timidity is not. Government is good, but bureaucracy is not. Politics is good, but politicians are not. Leadership is good, but autocracy is not. Justice is good, but revenge is not. Chastisement is good, but wrath is not. Integrity is good, but self-righteousness is not. Mankind is good, but sinners are not. The world is good, but people are not.

Unless you don't get the sense that everything is senseless, you are not making any sense to me

Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

Un peu d’égoïsme est nécessaire à la vie, puisque c'est le point de départ de la conscience.

Until the day I die, I’ll be here for all people’s of this world and beyond.

Untamable is my mind, like a bee. Enchanting is your beauty, like a rose. Unsurpassable is my soul, like a sky. Unfathomable is your beauty, like a star. Thirsty is my spirit, like a desert. Quenching is your beauty, like a rain. Undefeatable is my triumph, like a worrier. Invincible is your beauty, like a princess. Mysterious is my life, like a night. Revealing is your beauty, like a light. Immovable is my heart, like a mountain. Irresistible is your beauty, like a moon.

Until one is close to death, it must be difficult to declare anyone as the love of one's life.

​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless.

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire,walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, From heaven through the world to hell

Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life

Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual For Creating Atheists, Peter Boghossian fills that gap, telling the reader how to become a ‘street epistemologist’ with the skills to attack religion at its weakest point: its reliance on faith rather than evidence. This book is essential for nonbelievers who want to do more than just carp about religion, but want to weaken its odious grasp on the world. (Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual For Creating Atheists')

Use your senses to SEE yourself for who you truly are. SMELL the flowers and become one with nature. TASTE the goodness of God. HEAR the truth. TOUCH the hearts of others with kindness and honest deeds.

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.

Use your wings often, or you'll forget how to fly. - The Malwatch

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed volume is a perfect sphere. In fact, billions of dollars could be saved annually on packaging materials if all shipping boxes and all packages of food in the supermarket were spheres. For example, the contents of a super-jumbo box of Cheerios would fit easily into a spherical carton with a four-and-half inch radius. But practical matters prevail - nobody wants to chase packaged food down the aisle after it rolls off the shelves.

Value won't buy happiness, but it will buy contentment by eliminating needs and allowing want to flourish into dreams. - The Malwatch

Üzüm üzüme baka baka kararır mı? Yoksa kendi gibi olan diğer üzümlere bakmak yerine tutup da kara üzüme bakan bir üzüm, zaten teorik olarak kara mıdır?

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don't smile much. Nominalists have more fun. They are known as Aristotle or Decimus-et-Ultimus Barziza, or as Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montague, or perhaps by one name in childhood and several others in the course of life. A firm Realist misses out on one of the most satisfying of all human activities -- the assumption of secret identities. A man who has lived and never been someone else has never lived. It is true that occasionally there can be embarrassment in secret identities, but only a Realist will take the whole thing seriously enough to hit you. So have your fun, and avoid Realists.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.

Vedanta is the oldest book in the Universe and specially on earth, one of the six systems darshans of ancient philosophy or knowledge. The term Vedanta means in Sanskrit the “conclusion” (anta) of the Vedas, the earliest sacred literature of ancient world. It applies to the Upanishads, which were elaborations of the Vedas, and to the universities that arose out of the study (mimamsa) of the Upanishads. Thus, Vedanta is also referred to as Vedanta Mimamsa (Reflection on Vedanta), Uttara Mimamsa (Reflection on the Latter Part of the Vedas), and Brahma Mimamsa (Reflection on Brahman).The Vedanta knowledge, as it is supremely have been various understandings, and intellect mind we have been progressive, beginning with the dualistic or Dvaita and expanding with the non-dualistic and dualistic world. The word Vedanta literally means the knowledge of the knowledge. The God Shiva, the lord Sun and the divine mother and the fortune or Brahma are the main deep energies in the world. The Vedas being the scriptures of the ancient knowledge. Now a day in all parts of the world Vedas are meant only the true absolute knowledge and supreme hymns and rituals of the Vedas are absolutely perfect.

Van Gogh's view of the world becomes a lamp that reveals corners of my heart that I didn't know were there- and all of this happens immediately, even though he died 88 years before I was born. So ask yourself this: Is The Starry Night infallible? The questions doesn't make sense. Though grammatically sound, it is a query with no meaning. I could just as easily ask "How much does a sunset weigh?" The beauty of The Starry Night isn't in it being fallible or infallible. It's a window into another person's soul. Let's try another question: Is The Starry Night true? If we're talking logic or math, this question is as nonsensical as the first. But if we ask with the perspective of an artist or philosopher, we might find that, yes, The Starry Night is very true- it tells us truths about the human experience. It's a testament to how grief feels and the numinous quality we often experience when we peer deeply into the night sky... It is somehow more true than facts- it resonates in some deeper chamber of the human heart. So let me ask you two more questions: Is the Bible infallible? Is it true?

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. 8 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. 11 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Vengeance is primitive; which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.

Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Victory comes when you pull yourself together – spirit, mind and body. When you have developed all three to the point that you are balanced, you will find the courage to be brave when you are scared, which will make you strong when you are weak.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

View your hard situation as a challenge and gain strength.

VIRTUALITY ACTUALITY Classrooms in schools will give way to classes in rooms at home Kamil Ali

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Viral energy is working, right now, to co-create your circumstances, experiences, relationships, health, wealth, and happiness.

Virality is inherent to energy in social interaction and the environment around you.

Visionaries have two principal means to immediately communicate insights beyond people’s mundane, common mindset. They can liken awareness to equivalent situations in life to which the listener can relate – using metaphor, analogy and other grammatical tools to picture points. Or they can illustrate how listeners can gain such awareness – a path to proceed on, techniques to engage, what to look for within.

Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.

Você pode cumprir com o determinismo biológico e social de seu tempo e chamar isso de "sentido da vida".

Vulnerability may seem like a weakness, but in truth, it is a strength for being able to show you can be vulnerable, shows you are just human. And being just human is our strength. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophies for Timeless Thoughts.

Wait for the moment they least expect.

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

Waking up from a dream can determine your mood for the day, so before you go to sleep, feed your mind the ingredients for a good one. - The Malwatch

Walking down a certain road is the best method to realize how challenging it could be.

Walk on, yes, but don’t walk away from people who need you.

Want less, live more

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

Was I (am I not still?) a victim of words and books merely, and are books just an excuse for living, living things out in parenthesis, even in the most desolate stony place as I was, quotations and misquotations raining down on me thick and fast – words, words, words – the multitude of words, a parody of rain? For after all, as old Mrs Feany said, the rain is healthy. And the rain it raineth everyday. But the stuff of books and solitude and spying on the poor, could they be healthy? Or were my doubts the real heresy and treason? What book ever changed the world? It seems a solipsism to say that what changes the way we see the world, changes the world, but it is not. Where do you want me to begin? The Bible, Das Kapital? The Divine Comedy, The Satanic Verses?