Sunshine

• 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
• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead. —Louisa May Alcott
• True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine. —Thomas Burke
• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. —William Feather
• Railway termini. . . are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. —E. M. Forster
• A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. —Benjamin Franklin
• This is what the LORD says to me: "I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." —Isaiah 18:4
• Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. —Harriet A. Jacobs
• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. —Helen Keller
• There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. —G. C. Lichtenberg
• The world goes up and the world goes down,
  And the sunshine follows the rain;
  And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
  can never come over again.
  —Charles Kingsley
• The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. [in Midnight Cowboy] —Dustin Hoffman
• Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
  Life is checkered shade and sunshine. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Some words are like rays of sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent. And if hard words cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give? —John Lubbock
• What are kings, when regiment is gone,
  But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? —Christopher Marlowe
• The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. —O.S. Marsden
• A compliment is verbal sunshine. —Robert Orben
• Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. —Satchel Paige
• Where there is sunshine, there is also shade. —Kashmiri Proverb
• No matter how far the sun shines, Still it must set. —Ferdinand Raimund
• It's the artist's job to create sunshine when there isn't any.—Roman Rolland
• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather just different kinds of good weather. —John Ruskin
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. —William Shakespeare
• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. —Alfred E. Smith
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house. —William Makepeace Thackeray
• Light breaks where no sun shines;
  Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
  Push in their tides. —Dylan Thomas
• What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day? —Henry David Thoreau
• Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. —William A. Ward
• The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. —Walt Whitman
• We grow by dreams. All big men are dreamers. Some of us let dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through the bad days ... to the sunshine and light which always come. —Woodrow Wilson