25 Uplifting Quotes For May To Help You Blossom

May is that perfect time when spring is still hanging on, but summer is coming. Flowers are blooming, the weather is warming up, and there’s plenty to celebrate, like Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. It’s the month that makes you want to slow down, soak it all in, and let yourself enjoy the vibe.

May is more than just the season of blooming flowers – it’s a time for personal renewal, fresh energy, and the gentle push toward becoming the best version of ourselves. You might be navigating change, chasing dreams, or simply seeking a little light in your day, but the right words can work wonders. This month, we’ve rounded up 25 soul-stirring, heart-lifting quotes.

Uplifting Quotes For May

Let these uplifting quotes for May serve as your sunshine on cloudy days, as your gentle nudge forward, and as your reminder that your time has come.

“When the sun is out, and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.” Robert Frost

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Faulkner

“The month of May is the gateway to summer.” Jean Hersey

“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” Fennel Hudson

“May is a bridge between winter and summer.” Terri Guillemets

“Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.” Mary Oliver

“May is green and pink and red.” Richard L. Ratliff

“May is the month of promise and the sweet beginnings of summer.” Unknown

“Spring is the time for plans and projects.” Leo Tolstoy

“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” Alice Munro

“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers. Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.” Robert Herrick

“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day.” Thomas Tusser

“May is the perfect time to take a breath of fresh air and enjoy the beauty of spring.” Debasish Mridha

“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope.” Emily Brontë

“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May.” Smokey Robinson

“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else.” L. M. Montgomery

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland

“It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights. I conclude it is from the Heavens, a grace, and to Earth, a gladness.” Nicholas Breton

“Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May, I feel I can start again. Life is feeling new. This is hope. This is love. This is where we all won.” Mychal Simka

“It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.” Alan Jay Lerner

“Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!” Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.” Lady Gregory

“I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.” Vera Brittain

“Where shall we keep the holiday and duly greet the entering May?” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great difference between ‘May’ and ‘Day’ is the ‘M’ and ‘D!’ Be a good managing director of your life each day in May.” Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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