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15412. “Spring is the best life coach: It gives you all the energy you want, all the positive thoughts you wish and all the boldness you need!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan April 7, 2020
15411. “If you can smile like a flower in the deep darkness of winter, spring is always there.” ― Debasish Mridha April 7, 2020
15410. “Spring invites us into a fairy land of imagination where flowers bloom with joy, butterflies fly with song, and love dances with love.” ― Debasish Mridha April 7, 2020
15408. “Oh, magical summer time, It can make you happy or blue something that leaves one’s heart reeling , Looking for that feeling every single day …” ― Imran Shaikh April 7, 2020
15407. “But within the winter, a spring is promised and prepared for” ― Jodi Aman April 7, 2020
15406. “Every ending will meet its own end, for every ending is destined to be swallowed up by a beginning.” ― Craig D Lounsbrough April 7, 2020
15405. “And the birds sang their songs of love. And the flowers serenaded with their sublime fragrances. And the whole world fell in love in spring!” ― Avijeet Das April 7, 2020
15404. “She was like springtime distilled into a person.” ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer April 7, 2020
15403. “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars April 7, 2020
15402. “New Year is a spring time! Open up like a flower! Let the world see your energy! And when the world see your energy and enthusiasm, the previously locked doors will be opened to you!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan April 7, 2020
15401. “When there is nothing left to learn from the winter, move on to the spring!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 7, 2020
15400. “Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine.” ― Simeon Ivanov, 0.1%: Join The Club of The Richest, Healthiest, Happiest April 7, 2020
15399. “Pronounce these words slowly: forsythia, magnolia, azalea, redbud. Spring: it’s not a fantasy, it’s real.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020
15398. “The spring blossoms get you out of your head and out working in the garden.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020
15397. “What are you? Spring or summer? Winter or autumn? None or all? Whatever you are, always be mild! Are you winter, then be a mild winter! Summer? Be a mild summer!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan April 7, 2020
15396. “I know she absolutely delights in the improvement of the weather, in the turning of the year.” ― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture April 7, 2020
15395. “You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.” ― Juan Ramón Jiménez April 7, 2020
15394. “By the late spring, you planted a seed when the sunshine felt the rain, how rare, how beautiful… An eternal feeling circulating through the deepest core, an extreme decoupling of perception and attention; show me the meaning! Still fresh and clean, where did you mastered in loving?” ― Rabin Paudel April 7, 2020
15393. “In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.” ― Master Nursi April 7, 2020
15392. “Spring, when fragrance emerged from its cocoon, was her favorite time of year.” ― Mary Calvi, Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love April 7, 2020
15391. “Animate or inanimate, all bodies under the sun give expression to their vitality. Especially on a fine day in spring!” ― Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart April 7, 2020
15390. “Gather in the summer, gather in the winter; and you will have everything you want in the spring.” ― Alan Maiccon April 7, 2020
15389. “Spring came down hard that year. And I do mean hard, like the fist of some drunken pike poker with too much fury and not enough ale, whose wife just left him for some wandering minstrel and whose commanding officer absconded with his pay.” ― Alex Bledsoe, The Sword-Edged Blonde April 7, 2020
15389. “Spring never looks at what the previous year has left it to work with. For you see, the issue is not the amount that’s left. The issue is the privilege to have any amount.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough April 7, 2020
15388. “lady through whose profound and fragile lips the sweet small clumsy feet of April came into the ragged meadow of my soul.” ― E.E. Cummings, Collected Poems April 7, 2020
15387. “There’s so much spring in the air– there’s so much lazy sweetness in your heart.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise April 7, 2020
15386. “Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else’s trash.” ― Franny Choi, Soft Science April 7, 2020
15385. “This is what l love about flowers. Wherever possible, they just grow; in between the weeds, through a crack in a stone, in the middle of mud or moss – they just grow fearlessly, so confident of their short-lived beauty.” ― Asma Naqi April 7, 2020
15384. “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020
15383. “Spring is the intro of the eastertide” ― Lea R. Caguinguin April 7, 2020
15382. “The light catching in the drops that clung to the window cast tiny darts of rainbows that danced around them. “Spring is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine” ― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement April 7, 2020
15381. “I’ve seen life accept endings, but I never seen life surrender to them.” ― Craig D Lounsbrough April 7, 2020
15380. “Everything is made new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its peculiar sweetness.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island April 7, 2020
15379. “He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrence was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.” ― Paul Harding April 7, 2020
15378. “At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.” ― Angela Carter, Shadow Dance April 7, 2020
15377. “The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.” ― E.B. White, One Man’s Meat April 7, 2020
15375. “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” ― Joel Osteen April 7, 2020
15374. “Following dark winter’s strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.” ― Phar West Nagle April 7, 2020
15373. “But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.” ― Mary balogh, A Matter of Class April 7, 2020
15372. “Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.” ― Debasish Mridha April 7, 2020
15371. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter” ― Munia Khan April 7, 2020
15370. “I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.” ― Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror April 7, 2020
15369. “I love the smell of rain and growing things.” ― Serina Hernandez April 7, 2020
15368. “Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . ” Spring Flight” ― Eileen Granfors, And More White Sheets: An expanded text edition April 7, 2020
15367. “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald April 7, 2020
15366. “When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – it is not yet painting Spring.” ― Eihei Dogen April 7, 2020
15365.“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” ― Neltje Blanchan April 7, 2020
15364. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets April 7, 2020
15363. “From the end spring new beginnings.” ― Pliny the Elder April 7, 2020
15362. “At last came the golden month of the wild folk– honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” ― Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk April 7, 2020
15361. “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” ― Millard Kaufman, Bowl of Cherries April 7, 2020
15360. “Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren’t.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak April 7, 2020
15359. “Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre April 7, 2020
15358. “Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” ― E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems April 7, 2020
15357. “I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” ― Oliver Herford April 7, 2020
15356. “April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves…a butterfly Floats and balances” ― Bashō, Japanese Haiku April 7, 2020
15355. “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition April 7, 2020
15354. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” ― Lilly Pulitzer April 7, 2020
15353. “Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.” ― Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl April 7, 2020
15352. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ― Virgil A. Kraft April 7, 2020
15351. “Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary April 7, 2020
15350. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir April 7, 2020
15348. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle April 7, 2020
15347. “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” ― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga April 7, 2020
15346. “We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise April 7, 2020
15345. “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020
15344. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room April 7, 2020
15343. “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 April 7, 2020
15342. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables April 7, 2020
15341. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind April 7, 2020
15340. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary April 7, 2020
15339. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” [Meditations Divine and Moral]” ― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet April 7, 2020
15338. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s April 7, 2020
15337. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke April 7, 2020
15336. “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden April 7, 2020
15335. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg April 7, 2020
15334. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems April 7, 2020
15333. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina April 7, 2020
15332. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer April 7, 2020
15331. “Our labor preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.” ― Voltaire, Candide April 7, 2020
15330. “What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” ― Sherman Alexie, Flight April 7, 2020
15329. “… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” ― Susan Ertz April 7, 2020
15328. “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy April 7, 2020
15327. “The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.” ― Michel Houellebecq April 7, 2020
15326. “I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.” ― Edward Gorey April 7, 2020
15325. “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague April 7, 2020
15324. “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” ― Friedrich Nietzsche April 7, 2020
15323. “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.” ― Louis C.K. April 7, 2020
15322. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ― Émile Zola, The Ladies’ Paradise April 7, 2020
15321. “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.” ― Shelby Foote April 7, 2020
15320. “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton April 7, 2020
15319. “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings April 7, 2020
15318. “But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha April 7, 2020
15317. “There are no gods, thank god, but there are dandelions. Go out and pick some.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020
15316. “For honey bees, a dandelion is the first sign of Spring!” ― June Stoyer April 7, 2020
15315. “Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we’d blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.” ― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame April 7, 2020
15314. “I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.” ― Ellie Lieberman, Society’s Foundlings April 7, 2020
15313. “About this grass now. I didn’t finish telling. It grows so close it’s guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-” “Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means no bees crossing our lot! You’re out of your mind, son” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine April 7, 2020
15312. “Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye April 7, 2020
15311. “But her wishes were so heavy for something so light” ― Lauren Kate, Fallen April 7, 2020

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