“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.” PeopleWorldPlayWholeReligionGamesWaterOppositesInfiniteSurfaceWhole WorldRisingInfinityBubblesRise AboveDualityBrahmanDissolving Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.” NeedsWholeHigh SchoolOppositesTeenagerMentality Author:Kay Panabaker
“My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.” DoneWholeFilmTurnsLeftCareersOpposites Author:Kelly Lynch
“No one who is being himself is going to be approved of all the time. The whole world could love you, but if you do not love yourself, you would not even notice. The opposite is also true - the whole world could disapprove of you, but if you love yourself, you would not even notice. Accept yourself within you and the entire world becomes totally acceptable.” IfsWorldWholeAcceptingLove YouAcceptanceOppositesIndependenceWhole WorldLove YourselfAcceptableWithin YouApprovedAccepting Yourself Author:Bartholomaus
“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.” MenWantMindWholePurposeTakenOppositesNotionSupremeGrievingBentOutrageousImposingSpoilt Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.” WorldSelfWholeCharacterIndividualOppositesRegardIndividualismAffirmationParticipationCollectivismSelf Affirmation Book:Writings on religion Source: Writings on religion
“...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.” WorldWayMeanWholeEarthUniverseHeavenPrinciplesOppositesHarmonyStructureWhole WorldRationality Author:Aristotle