Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Louise Lynn Hay: (Los Angeles, 8 October 1926 – San Diego, 30 August 2017). American author of non-fiction books on personal growth. She is best known for her books on positive thinking. Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence. Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that… Lees verder Louise Hay

Inge Geertzen: Dutch Life Coach and public speaker, founder of Inge Ingspire and the Inge Rock Academy. Letting go is difficult, but it is impossible to hold on to something that is not meant to be. Behind every tear of sorrow is the smile of memories. Meaning is the creative power of your personal vision… Lees verder Inge Geertzen

Everyone has the freedom to choose continuously in the present. We can only choose for ourselves, not for others. As soon as we let others choose for us, we lose confidence in our Self.

Napoleon Bonaparte: (Ajaccio, 15 August 1769 – St Helena, 5 May 1821). Baptised Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a French general and dictator during the last governments of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was emperor of the French from 2 December 1804 to 11 April 1814. From 17 March 1805 to 11 April 1814,… Lees verder Napoleon Bonaparte

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824). French moralist and essayist, best known for his Carnets (diary entries), which were not published until after his death. He is known for: Style: Aphoristic and fragmentary writing — he published virtually nothing during his lifetime, but filled notebooks with random thoughts and observations for decades. Great brevity and precision: he strove… Lees verder Joseph Joubert

Ernest Miller Hemingway: (Oak Park, 21 July 1899 – Ketchum, 2 July 1961). American writer and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1953 with The Old Man and the Sea and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. His… Lees verder Ernest Hemingway

I don’t trust words anymore. I only trust actions. People can pretend to do a lot without being serious about it.

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski : (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942). Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Failure of political freedom destroys all other freedoms.      

The difference between friendship and love is that friendship endures absence. That’s the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.    

Kaui Hart Hemmings: (born 1975). American writer. She is best known for her 2007 novel The Descendants, which was adapted into a film of the same title. Kaui Hart Hemmings was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Punahou School for high school, graduating in 1994.She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998. She earned… Lees verder Kaui Hart Hemmings