Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Henry Beston: (June 1, 1888 – April 15, 1968). American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1928. Born Henry Beston Sheahan, he was born and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts with his parents, Dr. Joseph Sheahan and Marie Louise (Maurice) Beston Sheahan, and brother George, a doctor.… Lees verder Henry Beston

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.        

Johannes Kepler or Keppler: (Weil der Stadt, 27 December 1571 – Regensburg, 15 November 1630). German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and physicist, in the service of Emperor Rudolf II, who became best known for his innovation of celestial mechanics: he calculated planetary motions and formulated Kepler’s Laws about them. The basic work to arrive at these… Lees verder Johannes Kepler

Every day you have the choice: do you keep running or do you rigorously turn your existence upside down?

You are worthy now. Not when you get that job, not when you lose twenty pound, not when people know who you are. Now. Simply because you exist.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. Forgiveness prevents them from destroying your heart.

Here we are. And we are living. Isn’t it amazing? How we manage to be at all.