Quotes by Spring The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world. Hugh Kingsmill visionsoulspring As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age. Henry David Thoreau cosmosagespring But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. Hermann Hesse exceptionspringthinking Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. Henry David Thoreau etceventsspring We loiter in winter while it is already spring. Henry David Thoreau gentle-rainwinterspring In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins winterspringmoving Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt. Humayun Azad faithspringinspirational Summer treads on heels of spring. Horace heelssummerspring You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice. Haruki Murakami practicewhitespring It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos. Haruki Murakami springwindmoving Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. Hugo Black loyaltyspringcountry To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. Herman Melville citizensguaranteesspring August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. Henry Rollins augustsummerspring Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat. Herman Melville summerwinterspring How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring. Haruki Murakami sundaylonelyspring Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away. Homer blowwinterspring The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. Henry David Thoreau squirrelsspringfirsts The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true Honore de Balzac errorsmistakespring Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man. Henry Ward Beecher feelingsspringmen We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. Henry Ward Beecher heartspringmen«5354555657585960616263»
