Spring Quotes
2107 quotes by 1434 authors
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Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires…
— Eric Voegelin
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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was…
— Alex Haley
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is…
— Max Beckmann
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Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God…
— Thomas Boston
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You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your…
— Henry Wotton
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But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the…
— Derrick Jensen
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I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have…
— Kurt Huber
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Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
— Nick JoaquÃn
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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the…
— Wasif Ali Wasif
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Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are…
— Wayne Muller
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There is love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or like a stream which dries up when it doesn't…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is…
— Martin Prechtel
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A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis…
— Zeena Schreck
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He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
— Aldo Leopold
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While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring,…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
— Robert Schumann
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Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
— George Orwell
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The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had…
— Denis Thatcher
Who Wrote These Spring Quotes
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