Abandoned Quote by Blaise Pascal

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful…

— Michael Leunig

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

— Laozi

“Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident…

— Arthur C. Crandall

Stillness overcomes heat.

— Laozi

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or…

— Walt Whitman

The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice…

— Astley Cooper

The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be…

— Anne Bosworth Greene

I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone,…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality…

— Herman Melville

“It is easy to mistake the fallowness of winter for wasted time and space. But this view obscures the necessity of winter for sustaining…

— Kari Leibowitz

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

— Alexander Smith

When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost…

— Mirabel Osler