Finding HopeQuotes For Autumn
Posted on September 17, 2022
We have finally reached autumn, my favourite season. I love the light, the colours, the crunchy leaves, the crispness of the air… I love all of it. So I’m very happy that it’s finally upon us. And so, to celebrate, here are some quotes about this gorgeous time of year…
“There are two times of year: autumn and waiting for autumn.” – Unknown
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets
“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets
“Essentially, autumn is the quiet completion of spring and summer. Spring was all eagerness and beginnings, summer was growth and flowering. Autumn is the achievement summarized, the harvested grain, the ripened apple, the grape in the wine press. Autumn is the bright leaf in the woodland, the opened husk on the bittersweet berry, the froth of asters at the roadside.” – Hal Borland
“A glorious crown the year puts on…” – Phebe A. Holder
“… The world reveals itself in its true dimensions in the autumn…” – Hal Borland
“Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January. The new and fresh has always come for me in the fall. Ironically, as leaves are falling like rain, crunching beneath my feet with finality, I am vibrating with the excitement of birth and new beginnings… My year begins in autumn.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
“I am standing in a new-minted world, summer folded away like a rose pressed in a book.” – Gladys Taber
“I step outside and the chilly air tightens the skin on my bare arms. Summer has ended all too quickly, and some of the leaves on the trees have already started to burn with the colors of fall. Fall colors… so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” – Siobhan Vivian
“Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“‘I’m dreading fall. It is a terrifying season,’ he says… ‘Everything shrivelling up and dying.’ I don’t know how to answer. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. I’ve never thought to be frightened of it.” – Lauren DeStefano
“We do not migrate as the birds do, but I notice there is a change in the rhythm of our life when the season ebbs… There is a quickening in the blood, a restlessness. Suddenly we are full of projects, which may be our own manner of migrating.” – Gladys Taber
“Autumn is the season of change.” – Taoist Proverb
“… Autumn winds shaking color from the trees…” – Terri Guillemets
“Light understands the colors of Autumn, and she loves him for it.” – Terri Guillemets
“I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Autumn is spring turned antique.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn writes her own poetry,
we are merely observers.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn carries more gold in its pockets than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
“Autumn breathes in golden sunshine and breathes out a frosty chill.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birdsong and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” – Terri Guillemets
“We want it to stay, but autumn always leaves. Beautifully.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn leaves blaze their swan song of colors and wait for winter to wipe the slate clean.” – Terri Guillemets
As I said, I’ve always loved autumn. The colours are so beautiful and there’s something about the light that seems different, feels different. And I love the bite in the air in the mornings; I can’t help thinking about how that’s what the expression ‘fresh start’ actually feels like. I feel more alive when the mornings feel like that. I’m also so used to a new academic year beginning in the autumn that I associate the time of year with new beginnings, even though I’m now no longer in education, and I can’t help feeling energised by that. That feeling might change now that I’m done with university (for the foreseeable future at least) but for now, I’ll try and enjoy that feeling.
Do you guys have any particular quotes about autumn or that you associate with autumn? Or maybe poems or songs? I have my playlist for each year but, at some point, I might make a playlist of songs that I associate with each season. That might be fun.
Quotes For Summer
Posted on June 5, 2022
Summer is upon us, although it seems hesitant to commit this year. At least where I am. But we’ve had some gorgeous sun, some beautiful blue skies, and a spectacular summer storm. So I think we’re getting there. And thus I thought I’d share some quotes about summer…
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeanette Walls
“Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fiber of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.” – Tom Hodgkinson
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” – Sarah Dessen
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett
“The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” – Oprah Winfrey
“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” – Mungo Jerry
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
Summer was always a conflicting time for me. When I was in school, I mourned the end of comfortable routines and the parts of school that I liked but looked forward to the freedom of the holiday. It was the same during sixth form and university. This year is one of the first summers I’ve had without of educations on either side of it so it’s a bit weird; I’m in uncharted waters to a certain degree. And the COVID numbers are still far too high for my anxiety to relent around all of the possible socialising that summer traditionally involves.
Do you have any quotes that you associate with summer? Or if not quotes, what about poems or songs?
Quotes For Spring
Posted on March 5, 2022
A few days ago, I was out and I saw my first crocuses of the year! I know, I’m very late – I haven’t been going out much recently – but it’s one of my favourite moments of spring. The first crocuses, the first snowdrops, the first daffodils… I love it. So I thought I’d share some quotes about spring as it seems that spring has really, finally joined us…
“‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ […] ‘It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…'” – Francis Hodgson Burnett
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” – Henry Rollins
“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” – Gertrude Smith Wister
“Spring triumphs over winter (he always lets her win).” – Terri Guillemets
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
“I hear the passing echoes of winter and feel the warming springtime sun.” – Terri Guillemets
“The sun has come out… and the air is vivid with spring light.” – Byron Caldwell Smith
“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.” – Marge Piercy
“The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown
“Spring translates earth’s happiness into colourful flowers.” – Terri Guillemets
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” – Marty Rubin
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke
“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.” – Juan Ramón Jiménez
“Flowers rewrite soil, water, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.” – Terri Guillemets
“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
“Spring: a reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Unknown
“Spring: the music of open windows.”– Terri Guillemets
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ―
While spring brings with it a lot of wild weather – wind, rain, grey skies – it also brings colour and freshness and a sense of change and momentum. I love the change of seasons; I love the possibility and hope associated with that change. I’m cautiously hopeful about what this spring holds.
Do you have any quotes that you associate with spring?
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