"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu

Photograph:  a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  - Ambrose Bierce

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination."
-Ward Elliot Hour

These are still pretty things to see in the winter - you just have to look a bit harder.