Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

FTD: No information available. March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring.          

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón: (Moguer (Spain) December 24, 1881 – San Juan (Puerto Rico), May 29, 1958). Spanish poet and Nobel laureate. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was the concept of “poesia pura,” or pure poetry. Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. You are reborn with the roses,… Lees verder Juan Ramón Jiménez

Katherine Flaba: Pinterest and Facebook blogger of beautiful texts and sayings. You may forget the kind words you said, but the recipient remembers them for a lifetime.        

Honoré de Balzac: Born Honoré Balzac (Tours, 20 May 1799 – Paris, 18 August 1850). French novelist, playwright and theorist, widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. Balzac is considered one of the founding fathers of realism in literature and, as a result, had a huge influence on the… Lees verder Honoré de Balzac

Edith Newbold Wharton: (née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937). American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper-class New York “aristocracy” to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her… Lees verder Edith Wharton

Tao Meng: No data available. Years of teaching Tao may yield one lesson: the truth is nowhere to be found but within yourself.        

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger: (Vienna, 12 August 1887 – there, 4 January 1961). Austrian physicist who became famous for his contributions to quantum mechanics, in particular the Schrödinger equation for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933. Schrödinger is also known for ‘Schrödinger’s cat’, a 1935 thought experiment concerning the concept of… Lees verder Ewin Schrödinger

Carlos Santana: (Autlán, Mexico, 20 July 1947). Mexican-American guitarist. He became known with Santana, the band bearing his surname and successful since the late 1960s. The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.        

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent practicing the four cardinal virtues in everyday life — prudence, fortitude, temperance,… Lees verder Stoic wisdom

Jacob Nordby: American writer. (born 1973, Santa Rosa, California, raised in Idaho and later in the Seattle area). Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.