Quotes About Renewal

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

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

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.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

"All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

"Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded."

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

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

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."

"Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies."

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

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

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.

"Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago."

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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

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.

In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre-human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.

Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.

The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.