Winter thoughts

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. 
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. 
~ Victor Hugo


One kind word can warm three winter months. 
~ Japanese proverb


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. 
~ Anne Bradstreet


Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. 
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh