Sunshine Quotes

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Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Helen Keller

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

Louisa May Alcott
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Joseph Addison
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
Joseph Addison

Walt Whitman
“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”
Walt Whitman

Katja Millay
“What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question.
"Sunshine," I say, and she smiles like she believes it's perfect and she may be the only person other than me who would think so.
"What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it.
Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond.
"Family," he says.
And he's right.”
Katja Millay

Maud Hart Lovelace
“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

Laura Ingalls Wilder
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues

Thomas Mann
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Sanober  Khan
“my mother
is pure radiance.

she is the sun
i can touch
and kiss

and hold
without
getting burnt.”
Sanober Khan

James Dashner
“Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. “Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.”
James Dashner, The Maze Runner

Sreesha Divakaran
“No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

Nikki Rowe
“She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.”
Nikki Rowe

Luther Burbank
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
Luther Burbank

Charles Dickens
“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Criss Jami
“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Sarah Ockler
“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.”
Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

F. Max Müller
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
Max Muller

Jonathan Haidt
“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Melody  Lee
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”
Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

George Bernard Shaw
“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
George Bernard Shaw

Ray Bradbury
“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”
Ray Bradbury

“Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson”
Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“To say goodbye, is to die a little.
To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.”
Nabil TOUSSI

Kimberly Novosel
“I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.”
Kimberly Novosel, Loved

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Kenneth Grahame
“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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