Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rainer Maria Rilke
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. - William Bradford
Wisdom comes with winters. - Oscar Wilde
Count your summers, not your winters. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Harsh winters precede pleasant springs. - Matshona Dhliwayo