For generations, humans have often had a reason to appreciate the radiant rays emitted by the sun, which is the largest body in the solar system. At one point in time or the other, you would most likely have learned how significant the sun is to the sustenance of life on earth.
Considering the fact that the sun provides warmth, energy, and nutrients, it’s pretty easy to understand why sunshine is so important to us.
Typically, the first thing you’d think of when describing the glorious sun is summer, the warmest season of the year. Characterized and associated with growth, summer is a significant period for food production as most cultivated plants grow better during summer.
The sun is such a fundamental part of life on earth that it was revered and worshiped as a deity thousands of years ago in Babylon and Egypt.
If you’ve ever listened and sang along to the famous song “Walking On Sunshine” by Katrine and The Waves, then you would be able to appreciate the warm feeling sunshine brings and fully comprehend why sunshine is cherished.
The admiration and gratitude we feel towards the beauty and comfort sunbeams provide are why so many quotes are centered around sunshine. Usually, these carefully crafted phrases are used to relate the unique qualities of the sun to an individual, person, or thing. We have handpicked a list of some of these beautiful quotes specially for you.
Before we begin, there’s a fascinating fact not many people know about the sun. If you’re asked to describe the sun, you would have most likely described it as an enormous, hot orange body. However, research and science have proven that the sun is brilliant white! It only appears orange, red, and sometimes yellow due to the conditions within the earth’s atmosphere.
Quotes About Sunshine
So, let’s get right to it. Prepare to be filled with wonder as we explore some of the most uplifting sunshine quotes of all time.
“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” – Walt Whitman
“It’s the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun falls.” – Romain Rolland
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as the happiness is the virtue of sunshine.” – Ruth Fulton Benedict
“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
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ― Roman Payne
“I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.” ― Kimberly Novosel, Loved
“Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Bring sunshine into the place you enter.” – Latika Teotia
“Don’t let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.” – Nandina Morris
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There is sunshine in my soul today.” – Unknown
“Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.” – Lee Entrekin
“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.” – Anne Bronte
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
“The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.” – Gene Amole
“It’s so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.” – Louie Schwartzberg
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Keep your face towards the sunshine – and the shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“A compliment is verbal sunshine.” – Robert Orben
“To be happy, you must be your own sunshine.” – C.E. Jerningham
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” – Helen Keller
“May sunshine surround you each new day. And may smiles and love never be far away.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.” – Lilly Pulitzer
“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” – William Arthur Ward
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” – William Shakespeare
“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.” – Walt Disney
“The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.” – Unknown
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James M. Barrie
“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 in Oliver Twist
“We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade” – Caroline Norton
“Let there be sunshine in your soul today!” – Unknown
“In a sunshine state of mind!” – Unknown
“Hello, sunshine! Rise and shine!” – Unknown
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. “- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make hay while the sun shines.” – Miguel de Cervantes
“Girls just wanna have SUN!” – Unknown
“Look at the sunny side of everything.” – Christian D. Larson
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” – William Makepeace Thackerayrain
“Whisky is liquid sunshine.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” – Luther Burbank
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
“Don’t confuse your path with the destination. Just because it’s stormy now, it doesn’t mean you are not headed for the sunshine.” – Unknown
“Everything is fine when there is sunshine!” – Unknown
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“May you see sunshine where others see shadows and opportunities where others see obstacles.” – Unknown
“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
“May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.” – Debasish Mridha
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.” – Unknown
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but the wide world’s joy.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Graciousness is like the sun shining through trees.” – Unknown
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.” – C.S. Lewis
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.” – Thomas Mann
“A sunny disposition is worth more than a fortune.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!” – Catherine Pulsifer
“There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.” – Unknown
“There is no rainbow without a little rain.” – Unknown
“There’s a bright spot in every dark cloud.” – Bruce Beresford
“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
“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” – William Arthur Ward
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“Even when it’s raining, the sunshine is still there.” – Clare Josa
“May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more.” – Irish blessing
“May the sunshine of comfort shine through the gloom of despair.” – Irish saying
“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” – Frank Lane
“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
“Look forward, in the direction of sunshine.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West
“Think of the day alive with sunshine, not the dismal days of rain.” – Robert E. Farley
“If you dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Humor – The sunshine of the mind.” – Bulwer-Lytton
“Marriages are like the weather, some rainy, some storms but mostly sunny days.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.” – Samuel Johnson
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Gwen Johansson began gardening as a side hobby while working two jobs at around ninety hours a week. Spending Sunday mornings in the garden was her vice for the hectic week, and after helping neighbors with their gardens and being asked numerous questions, she decided to make her own free resource for others to enjoy. She now spends more time in her garden than at work, and strives to help you understand your fragrant outdoor space more than anyone else.
