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"From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall."
"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
"Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery"
"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
"Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live."
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
"I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees."
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."
"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up."
"Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you."
"It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day."
"April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances"
"Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies"
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
"Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth."
"The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child."
"To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black."
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."