Sunshine Quotes - Page 9

• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Lonely

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• Does not all the blood within me
  Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
  As the springs to meet the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Spring, Blood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.209, Library of America

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• Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
  Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

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• It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Home, Learning

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• You are the sunshine of my life, you take the clouds away and make me a rainbow every day. You're in my heart where you'll forever stay. I love you, sweetheart.

  Stephanie

  I Love You, Heart, Clouds

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• Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
  Less pleasing when possest;
  The tear forgot as soon as shed,
  The sunshine of the breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Gay, Tears

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.16

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• If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Years, Sunny

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• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive, Men, Feet

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Perfect, Rose, Broken

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Family, Mother, Peace

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Sweet, Song

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life And Love, Shadow, Duty

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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• Break open
  A cherry tree
  And there are no flowers;
  But the spring breeze
  Brings forth myriad blossoms.

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction. Naturally, every action which is destructive is against human nature. Constructiveness is the human way. Therefore, I think that in terms of basic human feeling, violence is not good. Non-violence is the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Fall

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• The country ever has a lagging Spring,
  Waiting for May to call its violets forth,
  And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.
  
  Within the city's bounds the time of flowers
  Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day,
  Such as full often, for a few bright hours,
  Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May,
  Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom-
  And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.

  William C. Bryant

  Country, Spring, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
  Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
  With brightest sunshine round me spread
  Of spring's unclouded weather,
  In this sequestered nook how sweet
  To sit upon my orchard-seat!
  And birds and flowers once more to greet,
  My last year's friends together.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Teenager, Home

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• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Cheer, Pain, Real

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• Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

  Lucy Larcom

  Adversity, Blessing, Doe

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Eye, Dark

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• Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

  Glenn Beck

  Where We Come, Remember, Warmth

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kings, Your Boyfriend, Monsters

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• I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Eye, Hair, Black

  Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black

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