In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

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By Allen Klein, MA, CSP

In many parts of the country it has been a very cold and difficult winter. At times like that it may seem that spring will never come. But it will. It does every year and it will do so again…I promise.

I used to live in one of those cold winter climates but I no longer do. In fact, as I write this, the very first daffodils are starting to show their yellow color. Anyone knows that they are the first harbingers of warmer weather.

So to my friends who are still wrapped in blankets and those who haven’t put their snow boots away, take heart. And know that this too (referring to winter weather) shall pass.

And while we are on the subject of winter and spring, I’d like you to consider what the rich and the famous, as well as the not-so-rich and not-so-famous have said about these seasons. These delightful and insightful bon mots are gathered from my book, Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest.

WINTER THOUGHTS

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments,

embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.

John Boswell

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

The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell,

lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything

quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion

in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

Patricia Hampl

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent

bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the

cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

Henry Mitchell

Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle

a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining

to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream.

Barbara Winkler

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter.

One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

Hal Borland

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places

in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.

Gertrude S. Wister

In every winters’ heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the

veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.

Kahlil Gibran

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Anne Bradstreet

SPRING THOUGHTS

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she’ll have to keep it.

Mark Beltaire

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Doug Larson

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

Virgil A. Kraft

Science has never drummed up quite as effective

a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

W. Earl Hall

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from

participating in nature’s rebirth?

Edward Giobbi

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

Reginald Heber

Sitting quietly, doing nothing,

Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Zen saying

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it’s too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it’s too late.

Henry Mitchell

Every spring is the only spring—a perpetual astonishment.

Ellis Peters

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