Hello all!

In honor of August starting tomorrow today, I wanted to share a few fun summer quotes to beat the heat for the rest of the season. I hope they put you in the mood to lay out in the sun, read a book in a park, and take a dip in the ocean!

“If it could only be like this always—always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” – Evelyn Waugh

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” – C. Day Lewis

” Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” -John Lubbock

“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison

“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” – Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

“Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.”

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” – Hosea Ballou

“You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” – Walt Whitman

“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves” – Debasish Mridha, Sweet Rhymes from Sweet Hearts

“The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.”– Katie Lee

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside,” – Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity,” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merlin’s Song

“Sonnet 18: “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare

“Oh sun! Fervid Sun! You welcome me with summer. Drench me in your rays,” – Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold

Stay cool, everyone!

XOXO

Parisa