Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

Family | Kill | Mind | Self | Wishes |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

What could be more charming than a boy before he has begun to cultivate his intellect? He is beautiful to look at; he gives himself no airs; he understands the meaning of art and literature instinctively; he goes about enjoying his life and making other people enjoy theirs.

Self | Thought | Wishes | Thought |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

The triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane over her head was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.

Adventure | Heart | People | Self | Sense | Will |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Observe very carefully the next challenge and you will find that you try to do something about it. For heaven’s sake, leave it alone.

Good | Power | Self | Thought | Thought |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

There is a way out of the human problem and anyone can find it.

Self |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Your first duty is toward yourself, your inner freedom, the truth.

Self |

Victor Hugo

He had been married and had had offspring. He did not know what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them the way he might have lost his handkerchief.

Beginning | Childhood | Darkness | Despair | Faith | Knowing | Man | Nothing | Soul | Time | Youth | Youth | Think |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

When troubled, we have our choice of either surface comfort or psychic understanding. If the choice is for comfort, such as associating with those who sympathize, we cannot have understanding. The demand for comfort blocks psychic insight. But if the choice is for understanding, which forces you to stand all alone without comfort, understanding breaks through. Every time we choose understanding over comfort, we walk a greater distance away from troubles, for such are caused by misunderstanding.

Self |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

To make it to heaven on earth, you have to be able to recognize a bad state the moment Satan sends it to you.

Self |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

The knowledge of human behavior will lead you to God.

Self |

Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

In front of me a man stumbled and those following him fell on top of him. The guard rushed over and used his whip on them all. Thus my thoughts were interrupted for a few minutes. But soon my soul found its way back from the prisoners existence to another world, and I resumed talk with my loved one: I asked her questions, and she answered; she questioned me in return, and I answered...

Attention | Famous | Man | World |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

Darkness | Power |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before. Under their influence he sometimes even forgot his own frightful circumstances. If someone had seen our faces on the journey from Auschwitz to a Bavarian camp as we beheld the mountains of Salzburg with their summits glowing in the sunset, through the little barred windows of the prison carriage, he would never have believed that those were the faces of men who had given up all hope of life and liberty. Despite that factor--or maybe because of it--we were carried away by nature's beauty, which we had missed for so long.

Love | Self |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

In his hearth and home, in his palace, upon his soft and comfortable bed, day and night, the flower-girls scatter flower petals; but without the Lord's Name, the body is miserable. Horses, elephants, lances, marching bands, armies, standard bearers, royal attendants and ostentatious displays - without the Lord of the Universe, these undertakings are all useless.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Applause | Envy | Eternal | Ideals | Men | Praise | Self | Society | Society |

Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Delusion | Self | Sorrow | Unity |

Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL

The Self is within all, and it is without all. – Isha Upanishad

Body | Consciousness | Day | Heaven | Light | Mortal | Self | World |

Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non-concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind, the highest End. - Maitreya Upanishad

Death | Self |

Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL

The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self. – Katha Upanishad

Self |

Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL

The sun that illuminates the pot both within and without is not destroyed with the destruction of the pot; so the Sakshi (witness) that illuminates the body is not destroyed with the destruction of the body. – Atmabodha Upanishad

Change | Lord | Self | World |