Last week, Mother Nature sent us a cold blast of winter. Confusion? Trickery? Passive aggressiveness? Or perhaps, a last hurrah to winter. But all is forgiven. Today marks a new beginning, a season of rebirth, reinvention, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection, and regrowth.
Here are ten of my favorite “spring” quotes:
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. Virgil A. Kraft
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’ Robin Williams
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently. Gary Zukav
Do you have a favorite “spring” quote?
S.C.Mitchell grew up an avid reader of comic books, science fiction and fantasy literature. He’s been writing stories for over thirty years. In 2010 he left his job as a computer desktop support specialist to pursue his passion for writing full time. He is a member of the Romance Writers of America as well as the Wisconsin chapter.
I knew I wanted to be a writer from the moment we learned about words and placing them together to form a sentence. Those sentences then became a paragraph, and multiple paragraphs formed a story. The magic of writing dawned on me then, and the glow hasn’t left since.
My excursion into fiction writing began a little more than twenty years ago. While living in Mexico and after reading several issues of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, I thought, “I can do that,” and labored for several weeks to produce a 20-page short story quickly rejected by the publication. Regardless, I learned two things from that experience: it was possible for me to complete a story, and that I needed to learn more about how to write if I were to ever be published (not so easy when living abroad and before the Internet came into its current form).
Joanne Guidoccio 