Buitenkant Street Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is not enjoyable unless we take up its expressive challenges. If a person surrounds himself with "friends" who simply reaffirm his public persona, who never question his dreams and desires, who never force him to try out new ways of being, he misses out on the opportunities friendship presents. A true friend is someone we can occasionally be crazy with, someone who does not expect us to be always true to form. It is someone who shares our goal of self-realization, and therefore is willing to share the risks that any increase in complexity entails. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. — Akira Kurosawa

The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down. — Arthur Rimbaud

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. — Lewis B. Smedes

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable. — Lionel Jospin

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. — Leo Buscaglia

Knowing that all of manifestation and creation starts on the most subtle levels, and then sequentially unfolds itself like the seed growing into a tree, it is also the level from which change occurs, from which any form of transformation from one state into the next occurs. — Maha Devi Li Ra La

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone. — Karen Salmansohn

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. — Jean Racine

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it ... — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

God regenerates (John 1:13) according to His will (James 1:18) through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5) when a person believes (John 1:12) the gospel as revealed in the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23). — Charles C. Ryrie

Tonight, I'm certainly going to tell you a story, but 'tis a story with a difference because, unlike virtually every other tale I tell-in this case, I was there. And yet I know that although I was there, and I saw people who were real, they have since become somewhat imagined-because I now view them through my memory. That's something every human being does-but storytellers live by it. — Frank Delaney

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. — Miguel De Cervantes

find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what? — Will Hodgkinson