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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: beginning, fresh-start, start-over, today
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    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    Audrey Coulthurst
    “And if time was kind, I’d find something to live for besides the memory of her.”
    ― Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars
    tags: love, memory
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
    tags: hope, poetry, spring, winter
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: earth, poems-of-blood-and-passion, spring
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    A.A. Milne
    “She turned to the sunlight
        And shook her yellow head,
    And whispered to her neighbor:
        "Winter is dead.”
    ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
    tags: daffodils, spring, sunlight, winter
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    Pablo Neruda
    “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: hope, inevitability, spring
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: renewal, summer
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: opening-lines, summer
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    Frantz Fanon
    “In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
    ― Frantz Fanon
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
    tags: humor, philosophy, terry-pratchett, wintersmith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.
    And to make an end is to make a beginning."

    (Little Gidding)”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: new-beginnings, new-year, new-year-s-day
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
    tags: craving, desire, life, nostalgia, seasons, spring, wanderlust
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
    Beauty is not enough.
    You can no longer quiet me with the redness
    Of little leaves opening stickily.
    I know what I know.
    The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
    The spikes of the crocus.
    The smell of the earth is good.
    It is apparent that there is no death.
    But what does that signify?
    Not only under ground are the brains of men
    Eaten by maggots.
    Life in itself
    Is nothing,
    An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
    It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
    April
    Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: april, beauty, life, poem, poems, poetry, seasons, spring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hazel-thicket, home, homesickness, memory, orchard, return-of-the-king, sadness, sam-gamgee, spring, strawberries
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    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    George Lucas
    “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
    ― George Lucas
    tags: inspiration, star-wars
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    Terry Brooks
    “It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”
    ― Terry Brooks, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
    tags: dreams, phantom-menace, pursuit, science-fiction, star-wars
    95 likes

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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “People never like me and I never like people”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Aleksandar Hemon
    “The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.”
    ― Aleksandar Hemon , The Book of My Lives
    tags: fairness, hope, innocence, spring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: j-r-r-tolkien, spring, the-fellowship-of-the-ring, the-lord-of-the-rings
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    Sappho
    “not one girl I think
    who looks on the light of the sun
    will ever
    have wisdom
    like this”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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