Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Learn to be silent. Let your still mind listen and absorb. Be nobody’s tyrant, not even your dog; be nobody’s slave, not even your friend’s. In household goods the newest is best, in friendship the oldest. A fool is known by his speech; a wise man by silence. No man is free who cannot control… Lees verder Pythagoras

Epictetus: (50 – c. 130 AD). Stoic philosopher and along with Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, among others, is counted among the leading figures in Stoic philosophy from the first centuries AD. Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. You are a little soul carrying around… Lees verder Epictetus

Only those who are alone a lot learn to think properly.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

You are one with nature.

A joke and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.

In order for your dreams to come true, you’ve got to stay awake.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

George Bernard Shaw: (Portobello, Dublin, 26 July 1856 – Ayot, St Lawrence, 2 November 1950). Irish playwright, socialist and theatre critic. He was a freethinker, supported the fight for equal rights for women and advocated equal pay for men and women. He was also a staunch vegetarian and opposed to animal testing. He won the… Lees verder George Bernard Shaw