One kind word can warm three winter months.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

—Japanese proverb

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare..

—Japanese proverb

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

—Japanese proverb

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

—Japanese proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

—Japanese proverb

Every mile is two in winter.

—George Herbert

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes—

—Emily Dickinson

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay—Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

—Charles Kingsley

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

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus