36 Happy Spring Quotes That Will Have You Looking Forward to Brighter Days

March 20 marks the start spring—or as we enjoy thinking of it, the season of fresh beginnings. Whether you like to usher in the promising time by making adjustments to your surroundings (think: planting flowers or tackling the cleaning projects you put off in winter), or you’re looking forward to the jolt of positivity that warmer weather tends to bring, these spring quotes may help inspire a new outlook. We’ve gathered excerpts from literature’s most famous writers like Ernest Hemingway and Maya Angelou, which can serve as Instagram captions, as well as short sayings to help wish others a happy spring. However you use these quotes, we hope you’re encouraged to spend time outdoors, because as author Harriet Ann Jacobs observed,”The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”