February can be a trying month for many of us. In most parts of the country, February is brutally cold, and the newness of January has worn off ... just in time for us to get down in the dumps.
Luckily, February has a sweet little bright spot in the form of Valentine's Day, when we celebrate love in all its glory. It can also be a time to get extra cozy, light a few candles, curl up under a down blanket and embrace the season. It might not seem like it right now, but spring will be here for you know it.
Whether you're having some trouble celebrating February or don't mind it at at all, here are 30 February quotes to help you embrace the season.
1. “In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.”
— Patience Strong
2. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare
3. "The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within." — William C. Bryant
4. "Without Valentine’s Day, February would be well, January." — Jim Gaffigan
5. “In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.”
— Linda Ellerbee
6. "Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you." — Elvis Presley
7. "A small bird twitters on a leafless spray, across the snow-waste, breaks a gleam of gold. What token can I give my friend today? But February blossoms, pure and cold? Frail gifts from Nature's half-reluctant hand. I see the signs of spring about the land. These chill snowdrops, fresh from wintry bowers are the forerunners of a world of flowers." — Sarah Doudney
8. "Valentine's Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow." — Roy A. Ngansop
9. “Surely as cometh the Winter, I know.There are Spring violets under the snow.” — Robert Henry Newell
10. “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.”
— Marc Parent
11. "The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed." — Tom Robbins
12. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." — Pablo Picasso
13. "Everything is clearer when you're in love." — John Lennon
14. "Cold and snowy February does seem slow and trying, very. Still, a month made gay by Cupid never could be wholly stupid." — Louise Bennett Weaver
15. "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paul Coehlo
16. "Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?" — William Shakespeare
17. "Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover." — Gail Mazur
18. “February is short and very sweet.” — Charmaine J Forde
19. "Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air." — William Morris
20. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
21. "February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind's daughters with icicles in her hair." — Edgar Fawcett
22. "One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about that ‘one that got away,' or you're recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine's Day, romanticizing the past isn't helpful – nor accurate." — Amy Morin
23. “There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.”
— Gertrude Jekyll
24. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." — Lucille Ball
25. “February is the border between winter and spring.” — Terri Guillemets
26. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything." — Katherine Hepburn
27. "When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that." — John Krasinski
28. "February makes a bridge and march breaks it." — Georges Hebert
29. "If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens." — Barack Obama
30. “Even winter—the hardest season, the most implacable—dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.” — Clive Barker
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