Autumn 2025

It seems it was just yesterday we posted our 2024 Autumn article for “What’s New?”.

Time just seems to fly by! That is why we should always take the time to enjoy, appreciate, and cherish every moment of autumn (and every season of the year).

Each season has something special to offer, but for many reasons, autumn seems to be the favorite season of all for most Americans, as per CBS News and multiple surveys.

Some of the many reasons for this being a favorite season include the end of the long hot summer, the first burst of cool, invigorating, brisk, fresh autumn air, the gentle fall of gold, red, and orange leaves flowing down from the trees, and looking forward to the upcoming holidays when we gather with friends and family, making new memories for us and the next generations to follow.

Let’s not forget, many parents look forward to children returning to school, making a big pile of leaves to jump into, delicious hot meals to keep us warm, cozy sweaters, pumpkin picking, apple picking, apple pie, apple cider, and long drives in the country to see the beautiful trees showing off their gorgeous autumn colors.

Wishing you all an autumn filled with family, friends, good food, good times, health, and happiness!

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As we approach each new season, the Coping Counselors at the Center for Coping publish an article pointing out the wonderful, positive aspects each season has to offer. We focus on the positive reasons to celebrate, rather than the negative, because it is healthier for your mental and physical well-being, and that is our goal for everyone. We focus on the positive, but we will always acknowledge and understand (and will be here to help) those who have difficulty with seasonal changes.

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Coping Quote Corner

This section of E-Cope is dedicated to all the famous, or not-so-famous, people who have been quoted throughout history and in present times, giving us little tidbits of life that move us, inspire us, and make us ponder about ourselves, our lives, our relationships, or life in general.

Sometimes, it’s just one little sentence that can make us stop and think and give us the wisdom to find ways to cope with whatever life throws our way. Whether these words are serious or humorous, they have withstood the test of time.

We hope you will find just the right quote to help you cope with whatever you are going through on your journey.

The quotes below are specific to autumn. We hope you will find just the right one to help you embrace the beauty of the autumn season and warm your heart and soul with all the beauty nature has to offer for each and every season.

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“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” — Unknown

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

― Joe L. Wheeler

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne

“What a wonderful world it was in autumn.” ― Diana Jaques, “The Falling Leaves”

“Autumn has arrived. I hear it in the whispering of leaves.” ― Anujj Elviis

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Leaves descending to the ground, orange, magenta, green, and brown. The cool crisp breezes in the air,

autumn season must be here.” ― Charmaine Forde

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave,

gracefully it knew life was a gift.” — Dodinsky

“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if

nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” — Lauren DeStefano, “Wither”

“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,

which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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