Spring Quotes - Page 14

• Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

  Christopher McDougall

  Common Sense, Psychology, Heroism

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Fall, Exercise

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• No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

  Paul Tsongas

  War, Rights, Events

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• Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

  Guy Finley

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Resentment, Language, Domination

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• The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Autumn, Vines, Fruit

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Men, Sea

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Humility, Godly

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winter, Exercise, Blue

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Secret, Desire

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Attitude, Body, Paradise

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• Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

  Sam Keen

  Wise, Wisdom, Creativity

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• For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Angel, Science, Three

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Winter, Wind, Ashes

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Fall, Writing

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• If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Winter, Robins

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• Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

  Christopher Dodd

  Abuse, Sake, Secrecy

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Ocean, Flower

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• Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

  Homer

  Fall, Men, Race

  Homer (1822). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.170

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• Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

  Jessica Mitford

  Summer, Growing Up, Winter

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books

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• In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

  Mart Crowley

  Men, Fancy, Young

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.115, Taylor & Francis

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• Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Autumn, Men, Joy

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Grief

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

  Frederic Loewe

  Years, England, World

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