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#1

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: heart, reason

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#2

“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

tags: cold, good-book, winter

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#3

“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, Daddy-Long-Legs

tags: jerusha-abbott, snow, winter

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#4

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
― Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle

tags: age, hope, optimism, snow, winter

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#5

“I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.”
― Cherie Priest, Bloodshot

tags: humor, snow, winter

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#6

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

tags: blizzards, revolution, sara-raasch, snow-like-ashes, winter

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#7

“Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!
Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!”
― Jasmine Martin, Whimsy Girl

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#8

“Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: autumn, fall, joy, mountains, peace, snow, wildlife, winter

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#9

“In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: winter

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#10

“Just when the air turns frosty and the days shrink into darkness, the Christmas season arrives in America. It begins at Thanksgiving--with families, feasts and football. Then during the next six weeks we shop and decorate, worship and make merry. Our hearts warm in the winter cold. We find compassion for strangers, and we remember there are miracles. Pious or festive or both, we join together in an extraordinary national festival.”
― J. Curtis Sanburn

tags: christmas, christmas-celebration, winter

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#11

“They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: love, records, snow, winter

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#12

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: laughter, winter

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#13

“Endure the cold, and true love will follow.”
― Rosca Marx, Wake Norway

tags: love, mantra, winter

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#14

“As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.”
― Ole Hallesby

tags: answers, prayer, snowflakes, winter

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#15

“Maybe nature is like you and me. It works like all of us. If the weather changes all the time,then it must be on duty. On this cold day winter has started it's shift therefore let us leave it to do it's job.”
― Paballo Seipei

tags: cold-weather, nature, winter, winter-days, work

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#16

“the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, world

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#17

“How could it be winter without snow?I appreciated every season, but winter was my favorite.I loved when it was time to pull out my thick sweaters.I loved the smell of a wood fire.I loved skiing and snow boarding and sledding, when i could find the time-although time was in a short supply when school was in session.I even enjoyed the cold, wintry weather, it was great for snuggling.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, Suite Dreams

tags: snow, winter

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#18

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

tags: stars, stories, storytelling, winter

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#19

“In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

tags: adults, carew-papritz, kids, quotes, the-legacy-letters, two-winters, winter

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#20

“To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: happiness, joy, richelle, richelle-goodrich, sunshine, winter, wish

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#21

“Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days.”
― Belinda Taylor on "Loss"

tags: grief, loss, pain, winter

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#22

“Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.”
― Leslie Land, The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food, and the Good Life

tags: snow, spiders, winter, woods

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#23

“Ah! comme la neige a neigé!”
― Émile Nelligan Soir d'hiver

tags: hiver, winter

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#24

“December is an old friend; it reminds you of the past, together you share some laughs and tears, you feel warm-hearted though it’s freezing outside. But, the goodbye is inevitable. May the memories we share with this friend next year be filled with comfort, peace and Love.”
― Mohamed Atef

tags: friendship, love, peace, winter

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#25

“...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...”
― John Geddes A Familiar Rain

tags: gentle, kind, mind, peace, pray, rest, winter

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#26

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god

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#27

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#28

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

tags: hell, love, safe

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#29

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading

3257 likes

#30

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

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