Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get.

Demophilus of Thespiae: According to Herodotus, was the commander of a contingent of 700 Thespians at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC). His father was Diadromes. The earth makes us expect her gifts every season, but we receive the fruits of friendship every moment.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.

Thinking back to when it was warm outside. Oh, why couldn’t Christmas be in July?

Your best life begins the day you take responsibility for it.

John O’Donohue: (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008). Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker] and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality. Where you are understood, you are at home.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev: (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev) (Orjol, 9 November 1818 – Bougival (near Paris), 3 September 1883) Russian writer and poet. He is counted among the great classical Russian writers of the 19th century and important exponent of Russian realism. And who says that only the truth is real? The lie… Lees verder Ivan Turgenev

Old mistakes have more friends than new truths.

A man’s life, a man’s freedom, are so unimportant when they cease to be infinite values.