Quotes

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Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

—Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

—Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

—Zen saying

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April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

—William Shakespeare

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An optimist is the human personification of spring.

—Susan J. Bissonette

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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

—Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

—Edgar Guest

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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

—Robin Williams

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want —oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

—Mark Twain

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I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

—Ruth Stout

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Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

—W. Earl Hall

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In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.

—Emma Racine deFleur

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Spring—an experience in immortality.

—Henry D. Thoreau

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The force of Spring—

mysterious,

fecund,

powerful beyond measure.

—Michael Garofalo

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Tis like the birthday of the world,

When earth was born in bloom;

The light is made of many dyes,

The air is all perfume:

There's crimson buds, and white and blue,

The very rainbow showers

Have turned to blossoms where they fell,

And sown the earth with flowers.

—Thomas Hood

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“It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should. ”

- A.W. Tozer

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“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”

- Karl Barth

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“It is time to bring reasonable and appropriate falling apart into fashion.”

- Beth Miller, M.D.

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“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”

- Comte de Buffon

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“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

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“Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him. ”

- Anne Graham Lotz

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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

- Leo Buscaglia

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“If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.”

- Kate Halverson