Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

We are all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

We cannot force ourselves to love — or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they’re going to say next.

I’d spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone I wasn’t, that I had no idea who I was any more.

I don’t care anymore, but sometimes, it hurts just a little.

When snow falls, nature listens.

By December, an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.

I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, as busy as the elfin world can be, clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

Power should make you sad and tired. Anyone who seems to like power is suspect.