Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

No one can be known except through friendship. How pitiful to be forgotten as God. Serving God is true freedom. Truth does not come to us from darkness, but from the sun. Photo by Luis Graterol With wisdom belongs the understanding of what is eternal; by knowledge the rational understanding of what is temporary.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. The source of our misery is that we expect more from laboratories and places of worship. It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. Life is like riding a bicycle. To… Lees verder Albert Einstein

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. The worst wheel squeaks loudest. The fool’s world is a paradise. Too bad, the bride is so pretty! The tavern can’t corrupt a good man, the synagogue can’t reform… Lees verder Yiddish proverbs

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. I feel very small. I don’t understand. I have so… Lees verder Anais Nin

When there is freedom, there is energy; when there is freedom, nothing can go wrong. The ending of sorrow brings love and compassion. A mind that is not free does not know what love is – it may know what pleasure is and therefore know fear, which has nothing to do with love. Love can… Lees verder Jiddu Krishnamurti

The plasma of the dream is the pain of separation. The dream remains alive after the body is buried. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. Music is the can opener of your soul. Chaos is the word we coined for an order we don’t understand.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life –… Lees verder Confucius

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. If Freedom of Speech is taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May be Led, like Sheep to the… Lees verder George Washington

O! A God is man when he dreams; a beggar when he thinks.

Face to face with fanaticism itself, a freedom that no longer believes in itself out of sheer goodness and humane skepticism is lost. Freedom exists, and also the will exists; but the freedom of the will does not exist, for a will that aims at its own freedom aims at the unknown. Happiness comes to… Lees verder Thomas Mann