Seasons Quotes

• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Change, Earth, Celebrate

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

  Bob Marley

  Purpose, Reason

  Song: Forever Loving Jah, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

  Annie Dillard

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Light, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2067, Delphi Classics

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• Conversion will not be a single event or something that will last for just one season of life but will be a continuing process. Life can become brighter until the perfect day, when we will see the Savior and find that we have become like Him. The Lord described the journey this way: ‘That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day’ (D&C 50:24).

  Henry B. Eyring

  Journey, Light, Perfect Days

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Optimism, Elements, Matter

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.122, Penguin

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  road construction, you may live in Canada

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Winter, May, Canada

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With patience everything comes in due season.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Patience, Dues

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• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Stars, Order, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.

  Christine Caine

  Accomplishment, Enemy, Enlargement

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 23, 2015

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

  Robert Bolt

  Country, Sake, Chaos

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.13, A&C Black

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• The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

  Rob Sheffield

  Garden, Community, Magic

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• A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Silence, Preparation

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