“In the depths of winter, I finally learnt in me there was an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus
“There is a wilder solitude in winter
When every sense is pricked alive and keen.” ~May Sarton
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” ~Henry David Thoreau
“We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement, and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.” ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“There is a grandeur in winter, stern and wild it may be, but a grandeur which speaks to the soul.” ~C. J. Peterson
“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” ~Kahlil Gibran
“When winter comes to a woman’s soul, she withdraws into her inner self, her deepest spaces. She refuses all connection, refutes all arguments that she should engage in the world. She may say she is resting, but she is more than resting: She is creating a new universe within herself, examining and breaking old patterns, destroying what should not be revived, feeding in secret what needs to thrive.
Winter women are those who bring into the next cycle what should be saved. They are the deep conservators of knowledge and power. Not for nothing did ancient peoples honour the grandmother. In her calm deliberateness, she winters over our truth, she freezes out false-heartedness.
Look into her eyes, this winter woman. In their gray spaciousness you can see the future. Look out of your own winter eyes. You too can see the future.” ~Patricia Monaghan
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.” ~D.H. Lawrence
“I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape–the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ” ~Andrew Wyeth
All photograph by Jeannie E. Roberts.
