Spring Quotes - Page 12

• The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

  Shannon Hale

  Night, Light, Snow

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.202, A&C Black

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• Hope springs eternal.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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• Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
  Lies open, writ in blossoms.

  William Allingham

  Lying, Book, Joyous

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, August, Focus

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Dragons

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• If there were no
  cherry blossoms
  in this world
  How much more tranquil
  our hearts would be in spring.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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• Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
  We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

  Babur

  Wisdom, Islamic, Eye

  Babur (Emperor of Hindustan), Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (2002). “The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor”, Modern Library

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  There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

  Dante Alighieri

  Speak, Gentle

  Dante Alighieri, “There Is A Gentle Thought”

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Hurt, Healing

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• His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Rocks, Depth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1035, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The muddy rivers of spring
  Are snarling
  Under the muddy skies.
  The mind is muddy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rivers, Sky, Mind

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• Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

  Henry Williamson

  Water, Spring Water, Icicles

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Secret, Desire

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Winter, Robins

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Men, Sea

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Attitude, Body, Paradise

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• I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there and I'm thinking about books novels. I've got these scrolls of paper that I hang up in my office and this is my idea room, my nightmare factory, and I have a big title at the top of the scroll and on the left hand side I have these character sketches on the characters, and then once I figure out who they are I can figure out what they want and once I figure out what they want I'm able to put obstacles in the way of that desire, and that's where plot springs from.

  Benjamin Percy

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Humility, Godly

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winter, Exercise, Blue

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

  Sam Keen

  Wise, Wisdom, Creativity

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• For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Angel, Science, Three

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Winter, Wind, Ashes

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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