Bloom with Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Springtime Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"There is no time like Spring, when life’s alive in everything."

- Christina Rossetti

"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."

- William Alexander

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer."

- Anita Krizzan

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"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

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

- Robert H. Schuller

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

- Walter Hagen

"Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk."

- Marge Piercy

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"That is one good thing about this world–there are always sure to be more springs."

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- Robin Williams

"I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better."

- Steve Southerland

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Flowers always make people better, happier, more hopeful."

- Luther Burbank

"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."

- Gustav Mahler

"That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs."

- L.M. Montgomery

"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."

- Edwin Way Teale

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

- Max Müller

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The deep roots never doubt spring will come."

- Marty Rubin

"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful."

- Jim Carrey

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

- Anne Bradstreet

"Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is."

- Jessica Harrelson

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

- Margaret Atwood

"You gotta bloom where you're planted."

- Dolly Parton

"Spring has a way of bringing everything back to life, even a broken heart."

- Willie Nelson

"Sunshine and spring bring out the best in everyone."

- Kenny Chesney

"When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere."

- John O'Donohue

"Happiness? The color of it must be spring green."

- Frances Mayes

"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."

- Susan J. Bissonette

"The promise of spring's arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!"

- Jen Selinsky

"A kind word is like a spring day."

- Russian Proverb

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."

- Doug Larson

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."

- Rumi

"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

- Sheryl Crow

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

- Ernest Hemingway

"With the coming of spring, I am calm again."

- Gustav Mahler

"If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."

- Audra Foveo

"A life without love is like a year without spring."

- Octavian Paler

"Always it's spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves."

- E.E. Cummings

"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

- William Wordsworth

"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush."

- Doug Larson

"Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible."

- Mary Oliver

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, 'Go.'"

- Christopher Morley

"Come the spring with all its splendour, all its birds, and all its blossoms!"

- Christina Rossetti

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

- Robert Browning

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"

- Sitting Bull

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

- Rogers Hornsby

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders."

- Henry David Thoreau

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

- John Burroughs

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

- Jim Rohn

"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."

- Matthew Arnold

"We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives."

- Gary Zukav

"Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth."

- Emile Zola

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."

- Bertrand Russell

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs."

- L.M. Montgomery

"The world’s favorite season is spring. All things seem possible in May."

- Edwin Way Teale

"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."

- John Muir

"April… hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Edgar Guest

"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."

- Ellis Peters

"Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring!"

- Lilly Pulitzer

"Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that."

- Christie Brinkley

"Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it's a rebirth of the spirit."

- Toni Sorenson

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"From the end spring new beginnings."

- Pliny the Elder

"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

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

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

"Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know."

- L.M. Montgomery

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing."

- S. Brown

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

- Albert Camus

"Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil."

- Bishop Reginald Heber

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."

- Walter Scott

"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"

- Wallace Stevens

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love."

- Sitting Bull

"I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring."

- Tara Westover

"Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot."

- Bernard Barton

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."

- Charles Dickens

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."

- B. C. Forbes

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

- Emma Racine Defleur

"May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights."

- H. Peter Loewer

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana

"When it feels like even the flowers are against you, keep on fighting."

- Loretta Lynn

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Ruth Stout

"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."

- Virgil A. Kraft

"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world."

- Charles Dudley Warner

"I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer."

- Dodie Smith

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."

- Bo Bennett

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."

- Gertrude S. Wister

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

- Henry Timrod

"A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King."

- Emily Dickinson

"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."

- Lewis Grizzard

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."

- Pietro Aretino

"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."

- William Jennings Bryan

"In spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

- Mark Twain

"hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day."

- Stanley Kunitz

"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."

- James Russell Lowell

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

- Alexander Pope

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."

- Ambrose Bierce

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time."

- Dave Winfield

"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love."

- Johnny Cash

"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."

- Al Bernstein

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

- Plutarch

"The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape."

- Ban Ki-moon

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence."

- Simon Schama

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

- Paul Valéry

"The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent."

- Isaac Newton

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."

- Luther Burbank

"No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks."

- Hanya Yanagihara

"My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me."

- Bayard Rustin

"I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination."

- Daniel Bruhl

"Purple is my favorite color. It makes me think of spring and summer. A purple dress, eating grapes, lilacs - I love purple."

- Angela Yee

"Crimes spring from fixed ideas."

- Max Stirner

"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower."

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."

"April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go."

"There's so much spring in the air—there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart."

"Had I known that you would be my first glimpse of spring, I would've kissed every fallen petal of my hope along the way."

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

"Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be."