Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. I don’t just want words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. I wasn’t actually in love, but felt a sort of tender curiosity. Life starts all over again when it gets… Lees verder F. Scott Fitzgerald

People start to heal the moment they feel heard. If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

Erich Pinchas Fromm: (Frankfurt am Main, 23 March 1900 – Muralto (Switzerland), 18 March 1980). Internationally renowned German-American psychologist, social psychologist and philosopher. Although he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, he later adhered to a humanist philosophy of life. He began his career as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Berlin. An illusion shared by… Lees verder Erich Fromm

Marcel Messing: (Netherlands, 18 November 1945) Graduated in anthropology, philosophy and religious studies. He is the author of 25 books and several articles. He was a staff lecturer and dean in Higher Vocational Education, a scientific contributor to the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam and a contributor to the journals Prana and Inzicht. Messing lived… Lees verder Marcel Messing

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

Outside noisy, inside empty. The trees planted by one generation, give shadow for the next. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you… Lees verder Chinese proverbs

Simon Johannes Carmiggelt: (The Hague, 7 October 1913 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1987). Dutch journalist, writer and poet. Under the pseudonym Kronkel, he published an almost daily italic in daily newspaper Het Parool for almost forty years, describing ordinary things in surprising ways, with an eye for humour in the difference between ideal and reality.… Lees verder Simon Carmiggelt

Thoughts are not stubborn. What is persistent is our habit of believing them.

It is impossible to argue with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already knows it. – Romain Rolland

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī: Or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim),[9] and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. I choose to love you in silence….For in silence I find no rejection. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure… Lees verder Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi