Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

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

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald: (Saint Paul (Minnesota), 24 September 1896 – Hollywood, 21 December 1940). American novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, has been adapted for film several times. Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He is often associated… Lees verder F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cheryl Richardson: American self-help coach and author of self-help books. 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.

Those who are content are always happy. 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… Lees verder Chinese proverbs and sayings

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.