Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Best-selling author, philanthropist and public speaker. She is the author of thirteen books, including Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, which spent more than two years on The New York Times Best Seller list where it held the number one position for a year. To date, Simple Abundance has sold… Lees verder Sarah Ban Breathnach

Brad Paisley: (Glen Dale, West Virginia, 28 October 1972). American country singer, guitarist and songwriter. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make it our own place.

We spend January first walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Jerry Spinelli: (born February 1, 1941). American writer of children’s novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer. I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January one.

Charlotte Brontë: (Thornton, 21 April 1816 – Haworth, 31 March 1855). British writer and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, whose novels became classics of English literature. Her sisters also became famous as novelists: Anne, the youngest and Emily the middle. There was also a brother, Branwell, who painted. Their father, Patrick Brontë (1777-1861),… Lees verder Charlotte Brontë

M. (Margot) L. Stedman: Born and raised in Western Australia, and now lives in London, UK. The Light Between Oceans is her first novel. January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees the past and future.

It’s very easy to lose hope, but we cannot do that. I always say that there’s a lot more good in the world than there is bad, and I continue to believe that. And that is what we must focus on.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.