Spring Quotes - Page 30

• Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

  Nichiren

  Change, Winter, Autumn

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Selfish, Opportunity

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. As we extend our hands and hearts toward others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Healing, Love Is

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• There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

  Criss Jami

  Issues, Judging, Insightful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.63, Criss Jami

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• Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love Is, Soul, Together

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Summer, Rose, Usual

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 44,

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• Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ideas, Track, Growth

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

  Rumi

  Soul, True Beauty, Rays

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Night, Men, Bed

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• Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

  Bill Vaughan

  Gratitude, Flower, Blessing

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• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Children, Bud

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• When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

  Maurice Thompson

  Sweet, Dark, Feet

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• New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

  Robert Graves

  New Beginnings, Cutting, Roots

  Robert Graves (2015). “The Complete Poems”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

  Andre Gide

  Worst

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.315, Routledge

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• This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

  O. Henry

  Cities, Soul, Wire

  O. Henry (2015). “The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more”, p.77, e-artnow

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• Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Fire, Flames

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• The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

  Aeschylus

  Night, Law, Long

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.154, Oxford University Press

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• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.

  Samuel Ullman

  Adventure, Mean, Boys

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

  George Meredith

  Valleys, Forget, Source

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8194, Library of Alexandria

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• While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

  Karel Capek

  Flower, Autumn, Winter

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• Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Blessed, Men, Fire

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• There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Moving Forward, Believe

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wine, Oil, Affliction

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• n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

  William Dean Howells

  Mean, Artist, Forever

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• You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

  Conrad Aiken

  Running, Lying, Names

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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