Groenendijk Bornem Quotes & Sayings

Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. — Augustine Birrell

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. - Ash — Julie Kagawa

I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,
No one touching. — Gary Soto

But I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually. — Frederick Buechner

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself. — Wally Schirra

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. — John C. Maxwell

Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation. — Gautama Buddha

;A good read is like a well planted seed; the roots go deep, germinate and yield a basket of wisdom. — Richard Milleville

Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not. — Lord Chesterfield