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Life has its natural cycles, just like the seasons

• Life is a continuous ebb and flow, like the seasons, like the ocean’s waves. When we learn to “ride” with them, our life becomes easier, with less resistance.  Romy Macias
• What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So, nothing is ever quite the same. Sherwood Smith
• A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• Life is an ebb and flow,  Winter,  Spring,  Summer,  Autumn

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Just like the seasons, everything in life is fleeting and in a state of constant change

• 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. Zhuangzi
• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time; it is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot, chief of the Siksika First Nation
• The non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. Bhagavad Gita
• As we look back on our lives, it’s easy to see that all things come and go: winter, spring, summer, and fall; joy, sorrow, praise, and blame; hardship, ease, rest, and exhaustion; accomplishments, mess- ups, and all the rest. Genuine freedom and happiness come when we can see this dynamic, not only in retrospect but while we’re going through something difficult. This way, we can keep our perspective right in the midst of the chaos. Richard Carlson
• Change,  Impermanence,  Life is fleeting

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The heart too has its seasons…

• Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. Kahlil Gibran
• The heart’s seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain? Myrtle Reed
• The heart,   Love

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… and so do relationships

• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter– discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer–comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature. Gary D. Chapman
• Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise, in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles. John Gray
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Embrace all the seasons of life …

• I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter.  I wish I had failed as little in other ways.  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines. Henry David Thoreau
• To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
• The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all – and to find in all of it the opportunities for growth. Parker Palmer
• Experience life in all possible ways; good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.  Osho

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… for each season has its own gifts to offer

• All seasons have something to offer. Jeannette Walls
• If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. Nadine Stair
• Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! Mehmet Murat ildan
• Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.  Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.  Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.  Yoko Ono
• Stand Tall and Proud. Sink your roots deeply into the Earth. Reflect the light of a greater source. Think long term. Go out on a limb. Remember your place among all living beings. Embrace with joy the changing seasons. For each yields its own abundance. The energy and birth of Spring. The growth and contentment of Summer. The wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall. The rest and quiet renewal of Winter. Ilan Shamir
• The question, “Which is the happiest season of life?” was asked of an aged man. And he replied: “When spring comes, and in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms, I think, ‘How beautiful is spring’; and when summer comes and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches, I think, ‘How beautiful is summer.’  When autumn loads them with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think, ‘How beautiful is autumn.’  And when it is severe winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches as I never could until now, and see the stars shine in God’s home.
• The return every spring of earth’s first freshness would never be kept if not for the frosts and rot and ripe deaths of fall. So, when I go out from the garden for the last time in autumn, I leave the gate open behind me. Michael Pollan
• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys… Spring, summer, autumn, or winter.  I wish I had failed as little in other ways.  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• 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
• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light. Wes Fesler
• Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. Wu Men
• Life is a gift,   Appreciation,  Gratitude

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Every season has its pleasures and delights

• Ev’ry season hath its pleasures: / Spring may boast her flow’ry prime, / Yet the vineyard’s ruby treasures / Brighten autumn’s sob’rer time… / Nor regret the blossoms dying, / While we still can taste the fruit. Thomas Moore, “Spring and Autumn”
• There is no season such delight can bring, As summer, autumn, winter and the spring. William Browne
• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. Charles Dickens
• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer and autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind and renew our sense of balance. Phil Harding
• Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Pleasure,  Delight

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Each season has its own purpose

• All energy vibrates and moves according to its own rhythm. These rhythms establish cycles and patterns. Think of the seasons, all of which form a full year. Each season has its own purpose and function, but is a vital part of the full circle. Christin Sander
• Purpose,  Meaning

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Each season has its own lessons and opportunities to grow

• As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair — and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return. Peace Pilgrim
• Seasons” is a wise metaphor for the movement of life, I think. It suggests that life is neither a battlefield nor a game of chance, but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all – and to find in all of it the opportunities for growth. Parker Palmer
• Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law. Hal Borland
• Opportunity,  Growth,  Learning

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Trust in the natural cycles and divine order of the universe

• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. Katherine Anne Porter
• world, I am in tune with every note of thy great harmony. For me nothing is early, nothing late, if it be timely for thee. O Nature, all that thy seasons yield is fruit for me. Marcus Aurelius
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Accept the change of the seasons in your life, without resistance

• And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Khalil Gibran
• If after harvest there is winter again, what does it matter? It is just seasonable.  H. Lawrence
• As life moves in cycles, every season comes to pass. One must rest in the centre, accepting change, to remain balanced through all that turns. To resist the turning nature of life results in suffering. Isira
• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. Kahlil Gibran
• Acceptance,  Non-resistance

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As the season unfold naturally, so allow things in your life to unfold in their own good time

• The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. Dan Millman
• Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun…. Don’t be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure. White Eagle
• Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. Bette Bao Lord
• Faith,  Trust in God

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Let the changing seasons bring harmony to your life

• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. Artur Rubenstein
• Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true. Susan Orlean
• Harmony, Happiness

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There is a season to cultivate, a season to harvest, and a season to rest and enjoy

• I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest. John Wooden
• There are times to cultivate and create when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally, of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are. Chogyam Trungpa
• There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.  Ecclesiastes 3:2
• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake
• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. C. Forbes

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There is a season for growth and a season for consolidation

• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• One of the clever adaptive qualities of bamboo is that it grows its leaves in the summer and its roots in the winter. It takes advantage of each season, and while it appears dormant, it is not. The roots grown in winter prepare for rapid branch and leaf development in summer. We, too, go through seasons, all of which afford us opportunities for different kinds of growth. In a prosperous economic season, there is a lot of building and external expansion. When an economic winter comes, with little activity in the outer world, that is the time for inner deepening. Alan Cohen

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During the warmer seasons, plan and prepare for the harsher ones …

• The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter. Proverb
• The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. Henry Clay
• He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Bible
• The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter. Proverb
• Winter is coming. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
• Winter comes fast on the lazy. Irish Sayings
• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. Charles Kuralt
• Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plan in spring, play all summer, and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? Stephen Covey
• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. Samuel Johnson
• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott
• In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins
• Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners. Virginia Cary Hudson
• Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. John Muir
• I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It’s therapeutic for me. Kimora Lee Simmons
• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe
• Planning,  Preparation

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… and also make time to be idle and enjoy the sunshine

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a spring 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
• Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. Ogden Nash
• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen
• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent
• I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer… come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. Oriana Green
• I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. Terri Guillemets
• 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
• Idleness,  Sunshine,  Rest and renewal

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Just as there is winter, there will be times of adversity

• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Soren Kierkegaard
• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. James Fenimore Cooper
• Winter,  Adversity,  Challenge

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Remember that if there were no winter, the summer and spring would not be so pleasant

• 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
• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? John Steinbeck
• Who says you need to feel positive all of the time? It’s completely ok to feel sad. See if you can find gratitude in your sadness. If it wasn’t for winter who would enjoy summer? If it wasn’t for ‘yucky’ work, we wouldn’t enjoy ‘fun’ work’? If it wasn’t for ‘bad relationships’ how would you know when you find a ‘great relationship’? Find gratitude in the negative. Maybe even celebrate it because the positive wouldn’t be possible without the negative. Andrew Roberts
• Winter,  Darkness,  Light,  Summer,  Spring

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Remember that even the coldest winters eventually turn into spring

• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. Bo Bennett
• As we look back on our lives, it’s easy to see that all things come and go: winter, spring, summer, and fall; joy, sorrow, praise, and blame; hardship, ease, rest, and exhaustion; accomplishments, mess- ups, and all the rest. Genuine freedom and happiness come when we can see this dynamic, not only in retrospect but while we’re going through something difficult. This way, we can keep our perspective right in the midst of the chaos. Richard Carlson
• Even the coldest winters eventually turn into springtime. Seasons always change.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• 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
• If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley
• It is about five o’clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes — autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen
• Life is a cycle, always in motion. If good times have moved on, so will times of trouble. Indian Proverb
• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. Thomas Carlyle
• No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. Proverb
• No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time. Frank Bolles
• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland
• Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Bible
• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. Rachel Carson
• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. Madeleine M. Kunin
• Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. Terri Guillemets
• You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Pablo Neruda
• Impermanence,  Winter,  Spring,  Adversity,  Challenge

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Just as there is Spring, we experience a season of youth

• April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. William Shakespeare
• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood. Samuel Johnson
• Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman
• Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler
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Embrace life as if it were Spring all year round

• Is it 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
• Life is meant to be fun, and fun is a sure antidote to disappointment. A million things have brought me joy, or laughter, or most important, the experience of beauty. Plant a potato, and discover a treasure chest of new ones when you dig them.  Walk down a northern path in the springtime, and try to count the dogwood blossoms and the trilliums.  Read Shakespeare.  Discover love.  Then look up at the stars and reach for them.  Richard Cutler
• I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter.  I wish I had failed as little in other ways.  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. Nadine Stair
• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. Pam Brown
• Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring. Lily Pulitzer
• Embrace this moment,  Embrace life,  Spring

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Keep your summer inside you irrespective of the season

• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
• One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
• There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter
• People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov
• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day. Henry David Thoreau
• Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring. Lily Pulitzer
• All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. Horace Friess
• Summer,  Cheerfulness,  Sunshine

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Just as summer always ends, good things always come to an eventual end

• There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? Joe Wheeler
• Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone: All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. Sir Thomas Moore
• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Anna Letitia Barbauld
• Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. George R.R. Martin
• But thy eternal summer shall not fade. William Shakespeare
• The last rose of summer. Proverb
• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Hal Borland
• Saying goodbye,  Heartbreak,   Impermanence

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Just as there Autumn, we experience a season of old age

• Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children’s children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful. A. Froude
• This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.  Buddha
• You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
• We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Time remorselessly rumbles down the corridors and streets of our lives. But it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination… that whatever can be done with our thoughts, words, and actions must be done soon. As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in Life’s hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine nineteenth-century French wine…. It is during the autumn of our lives that this inner vintage begins to sculpt and paint the face as it seeps through the skin from within. Joe L. Wheeler
• On the whole, I take it that middle age is a happier period than youth. In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter morning and evening—no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air. Alexander Smith
• Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler
• Autumn,  Growing older,  Staying young at heart

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Make peace with death for it is a part of the natural cycle of life

• Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. Haruki Murakami
• Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Life is a cycle, a great wheel that turns throughout time: we are born, we live, we die, and (if we are lucky) we are reborn. Robyn Bachar
• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs
• Death is part and parcel of life. With every death comes a new birth; with every birth comes an eventual death. Don’t mourn the dead. Celebrate the fact that they lived. Celestine Chua
• A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation.  Life is neither linear nor stagnant.  It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made. Rachel Naomi Remen
• Death,  Peace

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