Olive Schreiner Quotes

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.