"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
- Pablo Neruda
Resilience
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."
- Pablo Neruda
Resilience
"The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."
- Edwin Way Teale
Optimism
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
- Robin Williams
Joy
"The deep roots never doubt spring will come."
- Marty Rubin
Resilience
"Where flowers bloom so does hope."
- Lady Bird Johnson
Hope
"When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere."
- John O'Donohue
New Beginnings
"Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."
- Luther Burbank
Self-improvement
"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
- Susan J. Bissonette
Positivity
"Flowers always make people better, happier, more hopeful."
- Luther Burbank
Happiness
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
- Audrey Hepburn
Aspirations
"The promise of spring's arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!"
- Jen Selinsky
Hope
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."
- Luther Burbank
Self-improvement
"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
Love
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland
Hope
"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
Growth
"The earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy
"Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is."
- Jessica Harrelson
Growth
"That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs."
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hope
"You gotta bloom where you're planted."
- Dolly Parton
Adaptation
"When it feels like even the flowers are against you, keep on fighting."
- Loretta Lynn
Perseverance
"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
Mindfulness
"That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs."
- L.M. Montgomery
Hope
"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."
- Edwin Way Teale
Hope
"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
- Leo Tolstoy
Ambition
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."
- Ernest Hemingway
Happiness
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature
"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."
- Virgil A. Kraft
Transformation
"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Growth
"A kind word is like a spring day."
- Russian Proverb
Compassion
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson
Joy
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."
- Anne Bradstreet
Awareness
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Nature
"Spring has a way of bringing everything back to life, even a broken heart."
- Willie Nelson
Healing
"Sunshine and spring bring out the best in everyone."
- Kenny Chesney
Positivity
"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world."
- Charles Dudley Warner
Contribution
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Nature
"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."
- Gustav Mahler
Well-being
"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."
- Sheryl Crow
Resilience
"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope
"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
Happiness
"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspiration
"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
Spirituality
"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
Hope
"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
Perseverance
"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
Perseverance
"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
Contentment
"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 Zukhav
Empowerment
"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
Growth
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Joy
"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
Mindfulness
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Lao Tzu
Wisdom
"Just living is not enough … one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Well-being
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Connection to Earth
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party!'"
- Robin Williams
Joy
"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
Inspiration
"She turned to the sunlight and shook her head, and whispered to her neighbor: 'Winter is dead.'"
- A.A. Milne
New Beginnings
"Just living is not enough ... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Well-being
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
- Helen Keller
Positivity
"Flowers with the sweetest odors filled all the sunny air, and not alone refreshed the sense, but stole the mind from care."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joy
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love."
- Johnny Cash
Choice
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair."
- Susan Polis Schutz
Joy
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
- Margaret Atwood
Nature
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
- George Santayana
Awareness
"Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break."
- Gary D. Schmidt
Joy
"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
- John Muir
Joy
"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."
- Bo Bennett
Optimism
"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
- Gertrude S. Wister
Love
"Happiness? The color of it must be spring green."
- Frances Mayes
Happiness
"Always it's Spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves."
- E.E. Cummings
Love
"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
- Oscar Wilde
Joy
"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
Contentment
"Garden as though you will live forever."
- William Kent
Mindfulness
"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
- Plutarch
Education
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
- B. C. Forbes
Success
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
- Walter Scott
Growth
"Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."
- Robert Browning
Nature
"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
Nature
"Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
- Al Bernstein
Change
"Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence."
- Yoko Ono
Reflection
"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
Faith
"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
Philosophy
"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."
- Bertrand Russell
Happiness
"I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer."
- Dodie Smith
Contentment
"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
Change
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman
Nature
"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 Valery
Philosophy
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
- Pietro Aretino
Creativity
"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
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
Reflection
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
- Max Müller
Love
"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
Hope
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
- Alexander Pope
Knowledge
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus
Change
"Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."
- Ambrose Bierce
Nature
"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
Environment
"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
Responsibility
"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
- Khalil Gibran
Philosophy
"Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training."
- Yogi Berra
Ambition
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Relationships
"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower."
Happiness
"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."
Hope
"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."
Determination
"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."
Awareness