Sunbeams Quotes

• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Summer

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Luxury, Feels

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

  Carl Sagan

  Dust, Suspended

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• And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.

  Hans Børli

  Light, Blue, Tree

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• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

  Robin Sharma

  Summer, Morning, Stars

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

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• Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

  Thomas Mann

  Laughter, Soul

  Thomas Mann (1970). “Stories of a lifetime”

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• Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sea

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

  David Swing

  Lying, Giving, Doe

  David Swing (1893). “Brilliants”

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• Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

  Philip Sidney

  Rays, May, Brightness

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• The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

  John Jortin

  Duty, Written

  Sermon, 1751.

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• I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Soul, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

  Alice Cary

  Fall, Winter

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.69

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Heart, Mirrors

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• It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Teacher, Teaching

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fall, Clouds, Showers

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Desire, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.411, e-artnow

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• If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

  Samuel Smiles

  Flower, Angel, Waiting

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.398

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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• Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Sleep, Clay, Toil

  'Greater Love' (written 1917)

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• Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Truth, Impossible

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.173

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