Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

This is the part of my life where I silently remove myself from anyone who hurts me more than they love me, drains me more than they replenish me, brings me more stress than they do peace, and tries to stunt my growth than clap for it.

Charlotte Eriksson: Swedish (Gothenburg), author, songwriter, dreamer, wanderer. I’m not everything I want to be, but l’m more than I was, and l’m still learning. It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming. Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice… Lees verder Charlotte Eriksson

Sometimes the reason everything feels too much is because it is. You’re only one lovely person who can only do and give so much. Be kind to yourself.

If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.

Benjamin Disraeli: (London, 21 December 1804 – Mayfair, 19 April 1881). British statesman of the Conservative Party. He was prime minister twice, in 1868 and from 1874-1880. Action may not always bring happiness: but there is no happiness without action.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Stop trying to get love, attention, recognition, and appreciation. Be someone who gives that.

Robert Wilson Lynd: (Irish: Roibéard Ó Floinn; 20 April 1879 – 6 October 1949). Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist, socialist and Irish nationalist. The truth is, most of us believe in trying to make other people happy, only if they can be happy in ways which we can approve. Friendship never endures… Lees verder Robert Lynd

The reality is not that the ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.