Vikaaro Quotes & Sayings

[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural - not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will ... This isn't to say that a young man can't hope to be seized by love ... But whether the sheer fury of a man's feelings accurately gauges their likely endurance is another question. The ardor will surely fade, sooner or later, and the marriage will then live or die on respect, practical compatibility, simple affection, and (these days, especially) determination. With the help of these things, something worthy of the label 'love' can last until death. But it will be a different kind of love from the kind that began the marriage. Will it be a richer love, a deeper love, a more spiritual love? Opinions vary. But it's certainly a more impressive love. — Robert Wright

God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

Someone should have mentioned to him that Karma was a venomous witch. — Courtney Cole

I don't read much of anything online. — Daniel Clowes

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things. — Andy Stanley

He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness. — Lionel Shriver

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. — Toyo Ito

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks. — Kola Boof

Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others. — Joyce Brothers

Beauty is common but what's rare is a great energy and outlook on life. — Neil Strauss

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests. — Melody Beattie

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water. — Frankie Valli

I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk. — James Belushi