Lohri

Key Facts (Lohri Dates)

History & Significance

The Wisdom Vault: Lohri-Ready Quotes (Harvest— Fire & Winter)

Harvest— Hard Work & Growing Season

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant".

— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later".

— Og Mandino

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn".

— B. C. Forbes

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy".

— Ralph Ransom

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny".

— Charles Reade

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action".

— Meister Eckhart

"Where there is injury let me sow pardon".

— Francis of Assisi

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet".

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bonfire Energy: Fire— Light & Inner Spark

"Love is friendship set on fire".

— Jeremy Taylor

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement".

— Golda Meir

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us".

— Albert Schweitzer

"If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see".

— Kenji Miyazawa

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present".

— Francis Bacon

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters".

— Aesop

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean".

— Maya Angelou

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn".

— Delmore Schwartz

Winter Warmth— Sunshine & New Beginnings

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best".

— Tom Allen

"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

"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter".

— Dave Barry

"The sun is new each day".

— Heraclitus

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy".

— Henry Ward Beecher

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress".

— Charles F. Kettering

"We come to beginnings only at the end".

— William Throsby Bridges

Gratitude— Blessings & Good Fortune

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts".

— Henri Frederic Amiel

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it".

— William Arthur Ward

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?""

— William Arthur Ward

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some".

— Charles Dickens

"The unthankful heart. discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

— Henry Ward Beecher

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures".

— Joseph Addison

"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away".

— William Barclay