Quotes by Spring A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain. Rumi flowerrainspring If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. Sam Rutigliano baseballspringfootball True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul. Rumi true-beautysoulspring I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about. Rush Limbaugh takenspringthinking Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. Rumi wantspringthinking What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached. Rumi personalityspringlong Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for. Rumi heartspringwater I drank water from your spring Rumi currentsspringwater Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler springtimefall If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. Rumi repeatsdoespring Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow. Samuel Garth airblowspring Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars. Samuel Griswold Goodrich perseveranceflowerspring Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt. Samuel Griswold Goodrich defensespringmen From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. Samuel Johnson originalitypathspring Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak. Rumi islamicwisdomspring It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler consciousnessactionspring Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring. Rumi perfectspringgrieving Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile. Samuel Johnson autumnflowerspring What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive. Rumi tinyspringtree The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. Samuel L. Jackson winterspringyears«112113114115116117118119120121122»
