Radiant Inspirations: 50 Uplifting Quotes About the Sun

"Sunshine is my quest."

- Winston Churchill

"The Sun is the giver of life."

- Ramses II

"As the Sun peaks over the mountain, it's a new day on our miraculous planet. Reason alone for celebration."

- Oprah Winfrey

"No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn."

- Maya Angelou

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

- John Ruskin

"The Sun is a daily reminder that we, too, can rise again from the darkness, that we, too, can shine our own light."

- S. Ajna

"I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you."

- Anne Frank

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

- Christopher McCandless

"O, Sunshine! The most precious gold to be found on earth."

- Roman Payne

"When the Sun is shining, I can do anything. No mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thing at the same time?"

- Nicholas Copernicus

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."

- Hafez

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel."

- Michael Morpurgo

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

- Jack Ma

"Every morning, the rising Sun invites and inspires us to begin again."

- Debasish Mridha

"I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

- Virginia Woolf

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- APJ Abdul Kalam

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."

- Dale Carnegie

"I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."

- Alexandre Dumas

"Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit."

- Og Mandino

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

- Max Müller

"I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The Sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I've found that there is always some beauty left - in Nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you."

- Anne Frank

"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."

- Charles Dickens

"Sunshine will guide your heart even in the darkest of days."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."

- Walt Whitman

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

- Morris West

"Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today."

- Nandina Morris

"When Sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night's darkness had brought in."

- Tista Ray

"Sunshine is Nature's hug and spirit breath to the earth."

- Terri Guillemets

"That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset."

- Helen Keller

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

- Alfred Austin

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

- William R. Alger

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

- Samuel Smiles

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you."

- Anna Lee

"It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

- Romain Rolland

"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us."

- Thomas Browne

"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?"

- Kahlil Gibran

"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The glorious sun, / Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, / Turning with splendor of his precious eye / The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold."

- William Shakespeare

"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There’s always the sunshine, only we must do our part, we must move into it."

- Clara Louise Burnham

"Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything."

- José Martí

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away."

- Elvis Presley

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy."

- C.S. Lewis

"Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it."

- James Thomas Fields

"A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."

- Victor Hugo

"The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

- Galileo Galilei

"The Sun is not God, though His noblest image."

- Robert Dodsley

"The Sun illuminates only the eyes of the man but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all."

- Caitlin Moran

"The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth."

- Arthur Rimbaud

"Learn from flowers - always angle towards the Sun."

- Maureen Joyce Connolly

"If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm."

- Frank Lane

"The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again."

- Ram Charan

"The Sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal, or a fish, and we take it for granted."

- Danny Boyle

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."

- William Blake

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

- C. S. Lewis

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?"

- Langston Hughes

"There’s no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day."

- Yann Martel

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

"See the gold sunshine patching, / And streaming and streaking across / The gray-green oaks; and catching, / By its soft brown beard, the moss."

- Philip James Bailey

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

- Galileo Galilei

"Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun."

- Arna Bontemps

"If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters."

- Abigail Van Buren

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench"

- Samuel Beckett

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."

- Rebecca Harding Davis

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

- Georg Fabricius

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not."

- Marty Robbins

"Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."

- John Lennon

"It's the artist's business to create sunshine when the Sun falls."

- Romain Rolland

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

- Jesus Christ

"The sun is gone, but I have a light."

- Kurt Cobain

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

- Christopher Columbus

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

- Pablo Picasso

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."

- Annie Dillard

"Of all our sunny world, I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself."

- Edith Södergran

"The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."

- Richard Dawkins

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

- Nelson Mandela

"When the Sun kisses the horizon, that's when you see the sky blush."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"I'd rather chase the Sun than wait for it."

- Markus Zusak

"Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that."

- Coolio

"The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do."

- John F. Kennedy

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

- Rose Kennedy

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

- Nathanial Hawthorne

"There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day."

- Yann Martel

"Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays."

- John Keble

"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense."

- Benjamin Franklin

"How glorious a greeting the Sun gives the mountains!"

- John Muir

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas."

- Marc Jacobs

"When the Sun has set, no candle can replace it."

- George R. R. Martin

"Even the Sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it."

- Eberhard Arnold

"The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun."

- Robert Herrick

"Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there."

- Grace Ogot

"The Sun shines upon good and bad alike."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"In the Sun, I feel as one."

- Kurt Cobain

"Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting."

- Eliza Cook

"The Sun, center, and sire of light, the keystone of the world-built arch of heaven."

- Philip James Bailey

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

- Joseph Addison

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."

- Nikola Tesla

"I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls."

- Rumi

"For me, my Sun is, like all images, a functional object for seeing, for feeling, for dreaming, for understanding."

- Micahel Buthe

"That the Sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise."

- David Hume

"When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?"

- Kim Young-ha

"One Sun warms and enlightens the world; two suns would destroy it."

- Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

"Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun."

- Kanye West

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time."

- Catfish Hunter

"The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine."

- Anthony Liccione

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

- Buddha

"With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'"

- Yayoi Kusama

"The day of the Sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."

- Wallace Stevens

"In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'"

- Charles Spurgeon

"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."

- Isaac Newton

"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."

- Rene Magritte

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

- George Eliot

"Being in the Sun is like going to parties - too much ages your skin, too little can age inside you like your bones."

- Bruce Y. Lee

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

- Hilaire Belloc

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"The low sun stares through dust of gold."

- Alexander Smith

"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The face of the Sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart."

- Armin J. Deutsch

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

- Satchel Paige

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."

- Jeanne Moreau

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Stand a little less between me and the sun."

- Diogenes

"If I had to have a religion, I should adore the Sun, for it is the Sun that fertilizes everything."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."

- Geronimo

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

- Charlotte Whitton

"Turn your face to the Sun, and the shadows fall behind you."

"What the world needs is a sunshine state of mind."

"Sunshine is the best medicine."

"Keep your face to the Sun, and you will never see the shadows."

"There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow."