Changing Seasons

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of change learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Endings and New Beginnings

Strength in Hard Times

Change

Is Life Really Hard?

Renewal