Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. 

~Yoko Ono

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05:12

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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15:33

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

~Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

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05:51

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
~Philip Pullman

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04:22

It's only in the Autumn where I can take breaths that make me want to take more breaths . . . I will always enjoy the grey solemn solitude of this season that grows darker and colder, day by day.
~Henry Rollins

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04:34

If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like   a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
~Andy Rooney

[true, and I would also add books to his list of random, everyday contentment.]

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