#spring

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#despair #even #flower #happiness #joy

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#feeling #i #i love #love #sensuality

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#lawless #nature #our #part #springs

From the end spring new beginnings. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#end #new #spring

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ↗

— Charles Cotton

#below #blessings #go #i #like

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

— Doug Larson

#even #feel #full #like #shoe

President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#agree #changes #cliff #current #current law

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

#children #classic #nature #spring #beauty

It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now? ↗

— Unica Zürn

#spring #wind #beauty

Bruce has wrestled with his moods, and a psyche genetically prone to extremes, for most of his adult life. Decades of psychotherapy helped reveal and cast light on some of his most primal traumas and conflicts, but his raw moods, and occasional descents into full-blown depression, never quite went away. "You go through periods of being good, then something stimulates it," he says. "The clock, some memory. You never know. The mind wants to link all your feelings to a cause. I'm feeling that because I'm doing this, or because that happened." Eventually Bruce realized that his worst moods had nothing to do with what was actually taking place in his life. Awful, stressful things could happen - conflicts, stress, disappointments, death - and he'd be unflappable. Then things would be peaceful and easy and he'd find himself on his knees. "You're going along fine, and then boom, it hits you. Things that just come from way down in the well. Completely noncasual, but it's part of your DNA, part of the way your body cycles." Bruce knows his particular brain chemistry will never leave him completely in the clear. "You manage it, you learn and evolve, but another recognition you gotta have is that these are the cards you were dealt," he says. "These things are never going to be out of your life. You gotta be constantly vigilant and realistic about these things. ↗

— Peter Ames Carlin

#depression #death