Quotes by Spring Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Tracy Kidder springinspiringadventure Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in. Tony Robbins foreverwinterspring There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming. Travis Rice alaskadoubtspring All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always. Truman Capote summerdarkspring Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. Truman Capote autumnspringfall All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. Truman Capote motivationspringart June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. Truman Capote winterspringanimal Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. Truman Capote motivationspringart American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos. Umberto Eco coffeehumblespring Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring. Unknown prayerspringadventure I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion. Ursula K. Le Guin lightstrongspring A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Ursula K. Le Guin seaspringmen A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. Ursula K. Le Guin writingspringjobs Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. Vaclav Klaus augustnew-yorkspring I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics. Vaclav Klaus springpeopleyears 'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole. Unknown girlspringsweet A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. Vaclav Havel greatnessimportantspring If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. Ursula K. Le Guin summerheartspring Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring. Ursula K. Le Guin fightingspringwar All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. Velupillai Prabhakaran greedsufferingspring«127128129130131132133134135136137»
