As summer 2016 comes to an end and school begins once again, there are some timeless summer quotes that can help bring a little bit of the summer-vibe to you again whenever and whereever you may need it.

(All photos are by me)

"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My soul is full of longing / For the secret of the sea / And the heart of the great ocean / Sends a thrilling pulse through me" ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night." ~ Crystal Woods

"Sunsets. The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time." ~ Ebelsain Villegas

"You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown — only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.” ~ Captain Kirk

While this doesn't have to do with summer, summer is the best time to go on an adventure, to allow your curiosity to take you to new places. Explore the unknown, do not be afraid of things just not yet explored.

"All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world." ~ L. M. Montgomery

"Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds." ~ Regina Brett

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ~ Sylvia Plath

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change." ~ E. B. White

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home." ~Michael Phelps

Because we all know the best swimming happens in the summer!

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the

trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar

conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." ~ John Steinbeck

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color." ~ Natalie Babbitt "Summertime is always the best of what might be." ~ Charles Bowden

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Here's to the wonderful summer of 2016 and to an even better summer of 2017!