In German, there’s a proverb almost word to word with the Finnish expression: ”Wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es heraus”. The Finnish and German proverb refer to the forest echo. #7 What comes singing, leaves whistling. In Finnish: Mikä laulaen tulee, se viheltäen...
"In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back." ...
The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass." -Andrew Marvell,Thoughts in a Garden "My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, ...
With our thoughts, we make the world. - The Buddha Life may not be the we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. - Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. ...
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with these inspiring sayings about honoring nature and the environment. Share famous quotes from world leaders, activists and writers.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"but you do have the power to make life joyful.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie Play with life, laugh with life,dance lightly with life,and smile at the riddles of life,knowing that life's only true lessonsare writ small in the margin.- Jonathan...
This one basically means'whatever is meant to happen to you, will happen to you"!It's the Scottish phrase I heard whenever I'd moan or complain about not getting something (or someone!). "You're a wee scunner!" This was usually said with a touch of impatience, as a fair translation...
and we are never, ever the same.- Flavia Weedn Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.Demanding that life meet our expectationsis a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.Life is a game with no rules.Life just happens ...
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater Don't throw good money after bad Time and tide wait for no man Time flies Time is money A trouble shared is a trouble halved Truth is stranger than fiction U V Variety is the spice of life W Don't wash your dirty linen in public Waste ...
36. Fair dinkum Excellent. “That’s fair dinkum”. The term comes from “a fair day's work’” with the worddinkumbeingadded by workers on Australian goldfields—din kumcomes from the translation of “true gold” in one of the Chinese dialects that was spoken there. ...