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Every season has its unique way of influencing our mood and in this post, you will find my favorite inspirational quotes for summer. Considering summer is the season of vacation, freedom, and relaxation and the time we spend more time in nature, especially by the sea. So, these are some inspiring quotes about this beautiful season.
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My favorite inspirational quotes for summer
Summer is about trips and adventures and the self-knowledge or enlightenment that they bring. Leaving schedules and strict programs aside is a great chance to reconsider your daily routines and how happy you are about them. Moreover, this pause helps you see things clearer and gives you the time to set new goals and decide what we want to do from the new Fall and the rest of the year.
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery
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F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Henry James quotes
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
Sylvia Plath quotes
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new Fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Pablo Neruda quotes
“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Henry David Thoreau quotes
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Albert Camus quotes
One of the most famous quotes about summer belongs to Albert Camus. He wrote that in the depth of winter he had finally learned that within him there laid an invincible summer.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jack Gilbert quotes
“But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.”
– Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
Osho quotes
“Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
– Osho
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John Steinbeck quotes
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.”
– John Steinbeck
Constantinos P. Cavafy quotes
“Hope the journey is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;”
– Constantinos P. Cavafy, Ithaka
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