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

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About George Santayana

George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

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Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

—George Santayana

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

—George Santayana

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

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People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

—Tom Allen

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Humans — despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments — owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

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There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball.

—Bill Veeck

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You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.