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Some becry winter as a miserable season

• In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave…. Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
• Rain,  Snow,  Summer,  Autumn,  Spring,  Adversity,  Darkness,  Nature

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Winter is dreary and gloomy

• Fall colors are funny. They’re 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
• When dark December glooms the day, / And takes our autumn joys away… Walter Scott
• Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. Gustave Flaubert
• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, / When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, / And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, / Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom. Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. Bill Watterson
• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything. Charles Dickens

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Winter is cold and rainy

• It is said that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
• Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. From the movie An Affair to Remember, written by Delmer Daves
• We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that. Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
• Nothing burns like the cold. George R.R.
• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. Roy Bean
• The winter here’s cold and bitter, it’s chilled us to the bone. We haven’t seen the sun for weeks, too long too far from home. I feel just like I’m sinking, and I claw for solid ground. I’m pulled down by the undertow, I never thought I could feel so. Sarah McLachlan
• Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Winter has a sting to it

• Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation. Sinclair Lewis
• Winter tames man, woman and beast…. William Shakespeare
• Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. Montenegrin Proverb
• Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” Robert Byrne

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Winter is when nature looks dead

• Fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness. Shauna Niequist
• Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! Mehmet Murat ildan
• Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. Hugh Macmillan
• There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead. Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Nature,  Death

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Winter is a time of simplicity and austerity

• The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread. John Burroughs
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Others see great merit in winter

• Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other. Terri Guillemets
• How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates. John Burroughs
• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. John Burroughs
• Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. Terri Guillemets
• 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
• I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip. Henry Rollins
• You can’t get too much winter in the winter. Robert Frost

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Winter has a kind of beauty to it …

• He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. John Burroughs
• I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. Andrew Wyeth
• It is a spur that one feels at this season more than at any other. How nimbly you step forth! The woods roar, the waters shine, and the hills look invitingly near. You do not miss the flowers and the songsters, or wish the trees or fields any different, or heavens any nearer. Every object pleases…. the straight light-gray trunks of the trees… how curious they look, and as if surprised in undress. John Burroughs
• Winter, then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells. Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
• Though it was scarcely six o’clock, the night was already pitch-dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred every detail with its ragged veils, punctured at various distances by the reddish glow of streetlamps and threads of light escaping from illuminated windows. The rain-drenched pavement glistened under the lamps like a lake reflecting strings of lights. A bitter wind, heavy with sleet, whipped at my face, its howling forming the high notes of a symphony whose bass was played by swollen waves crashing into the piers of the bridges below. The evening lacked none of winter’s rough poetry. Théophile Gautier
• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon – the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.  Jean Webster
• Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter’s day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these! Charles Dickens
• The city in winter is rich with the bittersweet nuance and somber beauty of the once-was. Terry Weeks
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… for nature is an artist and winter is her etching

• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…. No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. John Burroughs
• Winter is an etching, spring a watercolour, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic – Stanley Horowitz
• Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens. Henry David Thoreau
• Art,  Life is God’s work of art

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Winter is a time of snow

• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. Lewis Carroll
• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
• Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. Sarah Addison Allen
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Winter has a kind of energy to it

• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Whoever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent aurorae of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery. John Burroughs

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Winter is a time to be cosy by the fire

• And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…. Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino
• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.  Henry David Thoreau
• I put up a petition annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side: candles at four o’clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without… Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. Edith Sitwell
• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories – Ghost Stories, or more shame for us – round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. Charles Dickens

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Winter is a time for comfort and good food

• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means nothing to the wind. Edith Sitwell
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Winter is a time for friends …

• In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, come here and live with me, in this cold place. But we are summer friends. There is a rule it seems, that summer friends don’t get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here, waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen her in a winter coat, and for some reason that makes me sadder than anything else in the world. Jacqueline Woodson
• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. George R.R. Martin
• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire.
• Shelter in winter that day — / a storm coming, but in the lee / of an island in a cover with friends — / oh, little bright cup of sun.  William Stafford
• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.  Linda Ellerbee
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… and a time for being alone

• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. Ruth Stout
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Winter is a time to rest

• In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake
• Winter is a time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. Stanley Crawford
• The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. Yiddish Proverb
• Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Winter is a time to read and write

• In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes
• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to Literature, summer the tissues and blood. John Burroughs
• I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. S. Eliot
• There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. E. Stevenson, Listening Valley
• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings. Quentin Crisp
• Reading,  Writing

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Winter is a time to take stock and to prepare

• The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching. Enya
• In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins
• Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. Paul Theroux
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Winter is a time of sharp sounds

• All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl. John Burroughs
• If you stand still outside you can hear it… Winter’s footsteps, the sound of falling leaves. Toshihiro Kawabata
• What a wild winter sound,— wild and weird, up among the ghostly hills…. I get up in the middle of the night to hear it. It is refreshing to the ear, and one delights to know that such wild creatures are among us. At this season Nature makes the most of every throb of life that can withstand her severity. John Burroughs
• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange. Hal Borland
• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night. Virginia Woolf

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Winter is part of nature’s natural cycle …

• Nature demonstrates that almost everything occurs in cycles. The earth rotates on a daily cycle. The moon evolves around the earth on a monthly cycle, and the earth revolves around the sun in an annual cycle. During the year, the four seasons take us from cold to warm and again to cold as plants and animals cycle from a dormant to an active stage and then, as another winter approaches, again become dormant. Tides flow daily toward, and away from, the shore. Each day closes with a sunset, which is followed by a sunrise. Winter ends; spring begins. And so it goes. Every beginning has an ending, and all endings herald a new beginning: life out of death. John Marks Templeton
• Life is a natural cycle of summer, autumn, winter, spring

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… and is to be enjoyed as much as any other

• 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
• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind and renew our sense of balance. Phil Harding
• 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 need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,–of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,–such health, such cheer, they afford forever! Henry David Thoreau
• Savouring,  Enjoyment

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So too our lives have seasons including winter …

• Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. John Gray
• 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
• The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. We shine different ways in the seaons of our lives.  Terri Guillemets
• Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives. Gary Zukav
• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want. Heraclitus of Ephesus

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… and the secret is to savour each season for the unique gifts it brings

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Gary Zukav
• While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. Tom Allen
• Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either. German Proverb
• Savouring,  Life is a gift

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Winter is a metaphor for sadness and low mood

• Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. Gustave Flaubert
• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. Bill Watterson
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York. William Shakespeare
• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller
• Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. Haruki Murakami
• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. Mignon McLaughlin
• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Kahlil Gibran
• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night. Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
• Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year. John Logan
• I had slumps that lasted into the winter. Bob Uecker
• Metaphors to live by,  Sadness,  Mood

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Winter is a metaphor for old age

• An old man in love is like a flower in winter. Portuguese Proverb
• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. Jean Paul
• For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest. The Talmud
• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. William Shakespeare
• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. William Shakespeare
• The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter. Marquis de Vauvenargues
• 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
• Getting older gracefully

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Winter is a metaphor for death

• 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
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Winter is a metaphor for impermanence

• 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
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Winter is a metaphor for 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
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Like with adversity, even the coldest winters turn to spring eventually

• Even the coldest winters eventually turn into springtime. Seasons always change. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley
• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland
• No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  Proverb
• Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. Terri Guillemets
• 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
• No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time. Frank Bolles
• 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
• 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
• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. Bo Bennett
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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In the midst of winter, keep summer in your heart

• 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
• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo
• Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. Carol Krucoff
• People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov
• One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo
• Summer,  Cheerfulness,  Optimism

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Without winter, summer would not be so sweet

• 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? Its 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

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Winter is a metaphor for the need to prepare for hardship

• The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. Henry Clay
• 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
• Preparation,  Adversity

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More winter metaphors

• As you forgive others, winter will soon make way for springtime as fresh joy pushes up through the soil of your heart. Barbara Johnson
• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. Eknath Easwaran
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot. William Shakespeare
• To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. W.J. Vogel
• The Zen proverb, ‘In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver,’ is meant to illustrate the importance of not trying to escape or avoid our present situation. Rebecca Otowa
• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves. Adyashanti
• 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 kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese proverb
• The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. Norman Douglas
• How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December’s bareness everywhere!  William Shakespeare

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Winter has a distinctive scent

• I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. Taylor Swift
• The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves…. the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passage ways. S. Eliot

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Autumn lights the way to winter

• Autumn is the hush before winter. French Proverb
• But you can’t plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. Yevgeny Zamyatin
• October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. Nova S. Bair
• Autumn

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It is important to get enough light, especially in the winter

• Spend 30 minutes outdoors. Vitamin D deficiencies arise especially in the winter months. Find ways to go outside daily for a breath of fresh air and sunlight (yes, even through the clouds).  Christine Louise Hohlbaum
• Lack of sunlight can make depression worse. Make sure you’re getting enough. Take a short walk outdoors, have your coffee outside, enjoy an al fresco meal, people-watch on a park bench, or sit out in the garden. Aim for at least 15 minutes of sunlight a day to boost your mood. If you live somewhere with little winter sunshine, try using a light therapy box. Robert and Jeanne Segal
• Health,  Light

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In some parts of the world, winter seems to last all year

• The English winter—ending in July, to recommence in August…  Lord Byron
• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. Billy Connolly

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• A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.  C. Fields
• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
• A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card. Farmer’s Almanac
• France had neither winter nor summer nor morals – apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. Mark Twain
• I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. Humphrey Bogart
• I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow you stop you shoot a gun and then you continue on. In most of the world it is known as the biathlon except in New York City where it is known as …winter.’  Michael Ventre
• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. Will Rogers
• Ice Fishing: Winter fishing method in which anglers use a variety of specialized equipment to catch colds.
• In Alaska, we have just two seasons — this winter and next winter. Leigh Wade
• In New England there are three times of year either winter has just been or winter is coming or it’s winter.  Bill Bryson
• Never catch snowflakes with your tongue until all the birds have gone south for the winter.
• Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.  Geraldo Rivera
• People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby
• Skiing may be a winter activity but some think of it as a fall sport.
• The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.  Mark Twain
• The English winter—ending in July, to recommence in August…  Lord Byron
• The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter. Dave Barry
• There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.  Bill Veeck
• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.  Billy Connolly
• To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. W.J. Vogel
• When I heated my home with oil I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.  Dave Barry
• Why did the Irish couple freeze at the drive in. They went to see the movie “Closed For The Winter.”
• Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” Robert Byrne
• Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
• Winter: The time of year when it gets later earlier.
• Winter’s coming so I’m knitting you a muffler. What size is your mouth?

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