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Every year, the cold of winter melts away and spring brings a new beginning. New beginnings are never easy, but we have some uplifting quotes that will inspire you to embrace them. Whether you’re in need for a caption for your Instagram snap of the cherry blossoms falling at your feet, or you’re just looking for a sentiment that captures your excitement about being able to drink iced coffee again, these positive spring quotes are sure to put into words the feelings that you have about the season.
From funny thoughts on spring by Robin Williams to moving mediations on the season from Pablo Neruda and Ralph Waldo Emerson, these spring quotes are a surefire way to get yourself to stop and smell the blooming roses.
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Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Once there was a thing called spring when the world was writing verses like yours and mine.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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John Denver
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry. Sunshine on the water looks so lovely. Sunshine almost always makes me high.
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Kacey Musgraves
There’s always been a rainbow hangin’ over your head.
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NikkiChe
Seasons change, and so do we.
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Roland R. Kemler
What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!
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Simon & Garfunkel
April come she will when streams are ripe and swelled with rain. May she will stay, resting in my arms again.
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Max Muller
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.
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The Temptations
I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day.
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The Beatles
Here comes the sun, and I say, it’s all right.
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S. Brown
The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.
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Lou Rawls
It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.
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Gustav Mahler
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
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Jim Carrey
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
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Jessica Harrelson
Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.
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Sam Cooke
A little flower that blooms in May. A lovely sunset at the end of a day. Someone helping a stranger along the way. That’s heaven to me.
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Neltje Blanchan
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?
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Anita Krizzan
Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.
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John Harrigan
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
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John Lennon
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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Victor Hugo
If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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E.E. Cummings
Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
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Josiyah Martin
The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
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Kobayashi Issa
What a strange thing! to be alive, beneath cherry blossoms.
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Mark Twain
It’s a spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want to — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
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Mimi Novic
Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.
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Oscar Wilde
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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