Verdverks Quotes & Sayings

As you push ahead in the pursuit of your dreams, always stop to celebrate that you are beyond where you were previously. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Maybe friendship can't begin until someone chooses you. But ... that doesn't mean you don't get to make a choice too. You can't do that ... unless you know who they are. And they can't choose you ... until they know who you are. — Miyoshi Toumori

Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply. — Roger Caillois

Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to the world as something sacred is by renewing our sense of wonder. That's why I'm so opposed to the kind of miracle-mongering we find in both new-age and old-age religion. We're attracted to pseudomiracles only because we've ceased to wonder at the world, at how amazing it is. — Sam Keen

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences. — Virginia Woolf

I don't care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want. — Ida Lokas

What's in these tacos?" a customer asked Del. "Nobody you know, mister," Del said. — John Joseph Adams

The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop. — Li Fan

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people. — Anthony Bourdain

If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life. — Hazrat Inayat Khan