Viri Quotes

#1. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
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Juvenal

#2. If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

Stewart Udall

#3. Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

Sam Altman

#4. I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

Reif Larsen

#5. The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Lexi screamed and almost dropped her bowl of popcorn.

M. Stratton

#7. Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Arthur Koestler

#8. A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Willie Nelson

#10. It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

Michael Parkinson

#11. Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Michelle Williams

#12. In my book (and this is my book!) magical thinking is the alchemy that you can use to visualize and project yourself into the professional and personal life that you want.

Sophia Amoruso

#13. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

Dr. Todd M. Fink

#14. The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.

Fabiola Francisco

#15. Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".

Steve Maraboli

#16. I swear, if Dan had claimed he could saw off more of his fingers than I could of my own, then one of us would've pointed a hand-turned-stump at the other and cackled with victory.

S. Hart