Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. --Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenUnless a tree
has borne blossoms in the spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ~ Charles J. Hare
Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter’s snow. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away. ~ Sarah Helen Whitman
The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchids died amid the summer glow. ~ Bryant
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. ~ Longfellow
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. --Anton Chekhov
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest;
if there were no winter, there would be no summer. --St. John Chrysostom
A life without love is like a year without summer. --Swedish Proverb
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. --Warren Buffett
The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco. --Mark Twain
I’m not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. –William Hazlitt
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. –Carl Sagan
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
--Edwin Way Teale
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~ Celia Thaxter
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. --John Muir
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have
no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. --Chuang Tzu
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity
to make a living. -John D. Rockefeller
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. --Martin Luther King Jr.
A hundred times every day I remind
myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. --Albert
Einstein
No great achievement is possible without persistent work. --Bertrand Russell
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. --Thomas Jefferson
A mind always employed is
always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. --Thomas Jefferson
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid
In a world where everyone seems to be larger and louder than
yourself, it is very comforting to have a small, quiet companion. --Peter Gray
A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off. --Helen Exley
Anyone who has looked a
teddy bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look. --Harold Nadolny
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring. --The Talmud
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry
rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. –Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and
above the clouds. –Edward Abbey
A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all—he’s walking on them. –Leonard L.
Levinson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. –Thomas Jefferson
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a
summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. –John Lubbock
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all
directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that come. --Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of
paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. –Pablo Picasso
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. –Andre Gide
I’ve learned there are three things
you don’t discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin. –Linus in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. –Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. –George Carlin
