My favourite idiom to break the ice             

It means to start or initiate a social interaction with someone new, join a conversation, another meaning is to attempt to become friends with someone.

Example- He told a joke to break the ice.

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

• In the spring, I have counted one hundred and thirty six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.          Mark Twain

• No matter how long the winter, Spring is sure to follow.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

When you educate yourself, you learn new things that other people are unaware of. This gives you the ability to make better decisions, come up with more evolved and intelligent thoughts, improve the lives of yourself and those around you, and therefore  makes you more valuable of a person.