Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Fate laughs at probabilities. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Leonardo da Vinci: (Anchiano (Vinci), 15 April 1452 – Amboise, 2 May 1519). Italian architect, inventor, engineer, philosopher, physicist, chemist, anatomist, sculptor, writer and painter from the Florentine Republic, during the Italian Renaissance. He is considered the textbook example of the Renaissance ideal of homo universalis and genius. I awoke, only to find out that… Lees verder Leonardo da Vinci

A child sees the infinite potential that life is, not because the child is ignorant, but because the child is free from a conditioned view.

The best gift you are ever going to give someone – the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – St Petersburg, 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881). Russian novelist and publicist. He is one of the best-known authors in Russian literature. He is counted among the so-called ‘Realist School’ in Russia, although his work is distinguished from many other realists by its philosophical content… Lees verder Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

Victor Marie Hugo: (Besançon, 26 February 1802 – Paris, 22 May 1885) was a French writer, poet, essayist and statesman and is considered one of the most important and influential French Romantic authors of the 19th century. He wrote novels, poems, plays, essays and political speeches and also left an extensive correspondence. Friendship is being… Lees verder Victor Hugo

Addiction is a friendship without a friend.

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel: Viscount de Tocqueville. (Verneuil-sur-Seine, 29 July 1805 – Cannes, 16 April 1859). French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist, historian and statesman. He is considered an important thinker of modern political liberalism. I hope to see the day when the law guarantees equal civil liberty to all inhabitants of the same empire. Liberty cannot… Lees verder Alexis de Tocqueville

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