Winter is a difficult season, and it’s all too easy to let the cold and the short days get the better of us. Here are 10 quotes that might help you have a different perspective. They might make winter seem more bearable, especially since the promise of spring is around the corner! Plus, there's no need to explain these words of wisdom......They speak for themselves!

1) “Kindness is like snow—It beautifies everything it covers.” –Kahlil Gibran

2) “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not taste some adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” –Anne Bradstreet

3) "Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

4) “Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.” –Victor Hugo

5) “The earth has music for those who listen.” –William Shakespeare

6) “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” –Markus Zusak

7) “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” –Albert Camus

8) “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.” –Unknown

9) “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” –Lewis Carroll

10) “Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all.” –Stanly Horowitz