Sunshine Quotes - Page 24

• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• It is the easiest thing in the world to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  God, Real, Dark

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• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Heart, Winter

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

  O. Henry

  Food, Ambition, Dark

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• Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Rain, Blessing

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Self Confidence

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Healing, Luxury

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

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• I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

  Juliana Hatfield

  Flower, Sleep, Hiding In The Shadows

  Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

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• I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

  Conor Oberst

  Country, Memories, Cities

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.

  Reginald Arkell

  Sweet, Needs, Life Is

  Reginald Arkell (1938). “More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener”

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• It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.

  KT Tunstall

  Emotional, People, Drug

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• There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Independence

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Home, Night

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

  Matt Skiba

  Shoes, Black, Rays

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Purple, Yellow, Gold

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.

  Monica Baldwin

  Sky, Yellow, June

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Flower, Healing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

  Christopher Martin-Jenkins

  Blue, Perfect Days, Australia

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• The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Earth, Passed Away, Birth

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

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• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

  Ella Maillart

  Ice, Gliding, Heat

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• We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

  Mos Def

  Night, Holes

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• Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Reflection, Mind, Lightning

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.54

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• Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Two, White

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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