Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other.

Timothy Paul Seely: Could not find any data. Golden haze, another morning feels like yesterday. End of May and now you’re gone, and there’s still bills to pay.

Celia Thaxter: (née Laighton; June 29, 1835 – August 25, 1894). American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on the Isles of Shoals at his Appledore Hotel. How she grew up to become a writer is detailed in her early autobiography (published by St. Nicholas), and… Lees verder Celia Thaxter

Denis Florence MacCarthy: (26 May 1817 – 9 April 1882). Irish poet, translator, and biographer, from Dublin. Ah! My heart is weary waiting, waiting for the May, waiting for the pleasant rambles where the fragrant hawthorn brambles. Where the woodbine alternating, scent the dewy way. Ah! My heart is weary, waiting, waiting for the May.

Sara Trevor Teasdale: (Later Filsinger; August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933). American lyric poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Filsinger after her 1914 marriage. In 1918, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. The world is tired, the year is old. The faded… Lees verder Sara Teasdale

When friendship and affection are gone, it is always good to replace them with politeness.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: (Portland, Maine, 27 February 1807 – Cambridge, Massachusetts, 24 March 1882). American educator and poet whose works include Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was one of the five Fireside Poets. Softly the evening came with the sunset. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows… Lees verder Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whoever intends to be happy every day determines the circumstances and does not allow himself to be determined by circumstances.