Bloom with Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Inspiring Spring Quotes

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

- Pablo Neruda

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The deep roots never doubt spring will come."

- Marty Rubin

"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

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

- Edwin Way Teale

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

- Jessica Harrelson

"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

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Luther Burbank

"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

"She turned to the sunlight and shook her head, and whispered to her neighbor: 'Winter is dead.'"

- A.A. Milne

"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

"You gotta bloom where you're planted."

- Dolly Parton

"sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love (all the merry little birds are flying in the floating in the very spirits singing in are winging in the blossoming) lovers go and lovers come awandering awondering but any two are perfectly alone there's nobody else alive (such a sky and such a sun i never knew and neither did you and everybody never breathed quite so many kinds of yes) not a tree can count his leaves each herself by opening but shining who by thousands mean only one amazing thing (secretly adoring shyly tiny winging darting floating merry in the blossoming always joyful selves are singing) sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love"

- E. E. Cummings

"Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

- Loretta Lynn

"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

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

- Luther Burbank

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

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

- George Santayana

"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

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

- Gustav Mahler

"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

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

- Hal Borland

"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

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"Just living is not enough ... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break."

- Gary D. Schmidt

"Garden as though you will live forever."

- William Kent

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

- Sheryl Crow

"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

"Don’t you know what that is? 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

"I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright."

- Millard Kaufman

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

- Doug Larson

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

- Gustav Mahler

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

- Johnny Cash

"Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you. Get off your chair in the middle of the day. Put on your shoes and take a long walk on open streets around people. Notice how they’re all walking, in a hurry, or slowly. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever they’re going. And notice how you’re just one of them. Not more, not less. Find comfort in the way you’re just one in the crowd. Your worries: no more, no less. Go back home. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Don’t buy the cigarettes. Go straight home. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Your face. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It’s still beating. Still fighting. Now get back to work.
Work with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it. Focus. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you. Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that. Then take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. 
You’re doing just fine.
You’re doing fine. I’m doing just fine."

- Charlotte Eriksson

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"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

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Frances Mayes

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Margaret Atwood

"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

"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

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what."

- John Galsworthy

"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

"People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Max Müller

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

- Gertrude S. Wister

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

- Dodie Smith

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

- Bertrand Russell

"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

"Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Al Bernstein

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

- B. C. Forbes

"A kind word is like a spring day."

- Russian Proverb

"We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Virgil A. Kraft

"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

"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

"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."

- Truman Capote

"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

"Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing."

- Elizabeth Cohen

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

- Walter Scott

"Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

- Robert Browning

"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

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

- Albert Camus

"who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves"

- E.E. Cummings

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."

- Virginia Woolf

"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

"The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes."

- Helen Bevington

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

- Vladimir Nabokov

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

- Pietro Aretino

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?"

- Roman Payne

"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

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

- Alexander Pope

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December."

- Oliver Herford

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

- Ambrose Bierce

"For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place."

- Frank McCourt

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

"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence."

"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."

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