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Quotes About Sunlight

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.
~ Bede Griffiths
Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn't it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain – they absolutely weren't going to sparkle in the sunlight.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
He [the sun] gives light as soon as he rises.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate and support and praise – I can operate in sunlight, basically – but I can't deal with angry or tearful women.
~ Gillian Flynn
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
~ Glenn Close
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
~ Glenn Close
Back in the hard sunlight, the big open-air bus carried them
~ Gregory Benford
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang and shouted and laughed, hardening ourselves to what we'd done in life, and what we'd lost. And the moon graced two fallen fools, on a fallen day, with sunlight purified by a mirror in the sky, made of stone.
~ Gregory David Roberts
SUNLIGHT SHATTERED ON THE WATER
~ Gregory David Roberts
But we made the night bright and the sunlight right a lot of the time, and never felt used or unloved.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish.
~ Gregory David Roberts
For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.
~ Sean Stewart
Kugel awoke early the next morning, turning his face from the harsh rays of intruding sunlight that stretched across the room like some goddamned thing that stretches across some other goddamned thing. Why did children always draw the sun smiling? he wondered. It's a giant ball of fire, kids. It's rage and fury. Whatever it's doing, it isn't fucking smiling.
~ Shalom Auslander
She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.
~ Shana Abé
Exposing 85 percent of your body to sunlight for twenty to forty-five minutes three to five times per week elicits the biological production of vitamin D and a neuropeptide known as MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone). Together, these compounds prevent fat storage, control appetite, and most importantly, normalize blood glucose and insulin levels.3 Fat loss is the result.
~ Shane Ellison
But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster.
~ Shannon Hale
It was different with him. It was as though he was naked to embarrass *me.* It was so strange how Khasar just stood there and laughed at my discomfort. So strange, and I was too afraid to do anything, even to look away. Then the last of the sunlight faded, and I realized why he'd taken off his clothes. It was so they wouldn't rip.
~ Shannon Hale
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
~ Faith Baldwin
When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!
~ Akilnathan Logeswaran
I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays.
~ Ronda Rousey
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
~ Galileo Galilei
the passionate hands of the sun
~ Mary Oliver