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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

—Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)
Category: PhilosophyMood: SereneTags: #autumn #beauty #seasons #perspective
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Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Why do you wish to grasp the fruit before its season?

—Epictetus, Enchiridion (The Manual of Living)
Category: NatureMood: ReflectiveTags: #seasons #maturation #patience #organic
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There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest.

—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), Book of the Way
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #rhythm #seasons #timing #patience
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
Category: NatureMood: SereneTags: #seasons #earth #presence #nature
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The sun rises and sets, the seasons cycle endlessly, yet the fool remains asleep in the cradle of delusion.

—Kabir, Bijak of Kabir
Category: Awakening from SlumberMood: ReflectiveTags: #kabir #awakening #time #seasons #mindfulness
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The summer insect cannot conceive of ice, for it is bound to a single season.

—Zhuangzi, The Book of Zhuangzi, Chapter 17 (Autumn Floods)
Category: Wisdom & Self-KnowledgeMood: PhilosophicalTags: #zhuangzi #limitations #seasons #perspective #humility
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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: ResilienceMood: MotivationalTags: #spring #hope #seasons #renewal
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