"She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people."
- Avijeet Das
Hope
"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days."
- Robert Leighton
Resilience
"Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers."
- Joe Hill
"Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower."
- Vera Nazarian
Mindfulness
"I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life."
- Helen Mirren
Inspiration
"Despite knowing they won't be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers."
- Rupi Kaur
Happiness
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
- Helen Keller
"Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there."
- J.R. Rim
"If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds."
- Pam Stewart
Self-confidence
"Always hold your head high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light."
- Malene Rossau
Courage
"During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life."
- Calendar Girls Movie
"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."
- Mario Fernandez
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the flowers do."
Positivity
"A sunflower poem: The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and when he warm returns. Points her enamor’d bosom to his ray."
- James Thomson
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
- Hellen Keller
Optimism
"Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality
"And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning's beam."
- Ebenezer Elliott
Nature
"A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns."
- Corina Abdulahm-Negura
"Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives—sunflowers."
"Some days you just have to create your own sunshine."
- Sam Sundquist
"If I were a flower…I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds."
Self-awareness
"Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers."
"Light-enchanted sunflower, thou/ Who gazest ever true and tender/ On the sun’s revolving splendour."
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
"Look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day…it’s as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun…so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower."
- Bodhi Smith
"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
- Jean Paul Richter
Relationships
"Look at the sunny side of everything."
- Christian D. Larson
"If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums."
- Mary Oliver
Creativity
"I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too."
- Miranda Kerr
Empowerment
"In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you every day I wake up and it is going to do that forever."
- Sheila Carey
Love
"I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate."
- Halle Berry
"Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower."
- Shunryu Suzuki
"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."
- John Harrigan
"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Ambition
"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."
- Bryant McGill
"Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you."
- Maori Proverb
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
- Max Müller
"In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun’s rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you every day I wake up and it is going to do that forever."
"Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow."
- John Lennon
"Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun."
- Remez Sasson
"Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them."
"The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Wherever the sun goes, the sunflower will follow. Through all of the pain. And all of the sorrow."
- Londrelle
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you."
Wisdom
"Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go!"
- William Blake
Reflection
"Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smile at the sun."
Joy
"A sunflower teaches us so much about love."
- Samrah Ahmad
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair."
- Susan Polis Schutz
"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days."
"Look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day...it's as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun... so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower."
"I plant sunflowers and get back daily joy."
- Nadine Locke
"Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun’s revolving splendour."
"The sunflower is a favourite emblem of constancy."
- Thomas Bulfinch
Strength
"I love a sunflower / and I believe in / love power."
- Tears for Fears
"The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"A perfect beauty of a sunflower! A perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! A sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!"
- Allen Ginsberg
"The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy."
"The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems."
- Richard Rohr
Awareness
"Like sunflowers, galaxies, and fingerprints, your life is an intricately designed spiral."
- Kristen Lee
Personal Growth
"Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. Like a field of sunflowers."
- Fiona Valpy
"A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits."
- Cecelia Ahern
"Does she realise she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?"
- Simone Elkeles
"True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time."
- Marie Williams Johnstone
"We’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment."
"Sunflowers in spring, they’re just like you / Sunflowers wipe away your tears / All your doubts and fears / You were born to fly, so high."
- Alice Peacock
"The sunflower is the most joyous of all of nature’s flowers."
- Laynni Locke
"The head of all flower heads is one flower, the sunflower in the sky, that gives the other vivid color stemming from the inside."
- Curtis Tyrone Jones
"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist."
- Nhat Hanh
"In a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower. Thornless. Unwithering. Abundant in seeds."
- JaTawny M. Chatmon
Self-improvement
"Tomorrow it may rain, so I’ll follow the sun."
- The Beatles
"When I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Attention shifted… like sunflowers turning to the sun."
- Khaled Hosseini
"You are touching so many people’s lives. You are a sunflower."
"My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun."
- Patricia Briggs
"Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower."
"You’ll emerge so bright that the haters will be blinded. And darling, you’ll be the sun then, bright and beautiful, but they won’t be your sunflowers."
- Minahil
"The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers."
- Martin Firrell
"They’re in bloom because they’ve found where they belong."
- Mark Sippings
Growth
"Her smile put the sunflower to shame."
- Jerry Spinelli
"Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, to court the sky."
- Caroline Gilman
"And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood."
- William Cullen Bryant
"I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy."
- Jostein Gaarder
"I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower."
- Tim Firth
"You look beautiful as a sunflower and charming as a rose."
"She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat."
- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Self-esteem
"Sunflowers are like people to me."
- Joan Mitchell
Connection to Earth
"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
- Chuck Jones
"Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets."
- Edna Ferber
"When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower, and every flower is a child."
"I think it’s something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience."
- Joe Lycett
"What god does a sunflower believe in? That’s the god I believe in."
- Marty Rubin
"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"
Philosophy
"Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs."
- Jane Nelson
"Of all the ways the sunflower has of loving light, regret is the most beautiful shadow on the sun dial."
- Andre Breton & Paul Eluard
"Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful."
- Jim Carrey
"Hidden inside every flower are seeds of imagination, destiny, and future dreams."
- Sondra Faye
Aspirations
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
"Make it like a sunflower."
- Steve Jobs
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
- Theodore Roethke
"Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun."
- Paul McCartney
"We’re all golden sunflowers inside."
"Restless sunflower; cease to move."
"The sunflower is mine, in a way."
- Vincent van Gogh
"Miles and miles of golden green Where the sunflowers blow In a solid glow."
- Robert Browning
"Sunflowers are my friends."
"Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. ‘Like a field of sunflowers.’"
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms."
"Yellow is my favourite summer colour – it makes me feel like a sunflower."
- Bria Vinaite
"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light."
- Eugenio Montale
"Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness."
"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
- Oscar Wilde
"If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness, Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds."
- Unknown
"Advice from a sunflower: Be outstanding in your field."
"Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace."
"Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower."
"Be outstanding in your field."
"Be like a sunflower, always look for the light"
"She is a sunflower – strong and bold, and true to herself."
"I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight."
"Always look at the brighter side of life, just like the sunflower, which looks upon the sun, not the dark clouds."
"Be the strongest, tallest, brightest bloom in the field."
"If you choose to reach for the sun, like the mighty sunflower, you will never have to live in the shadows of despair."
"Be a pop of color wherever you go. Brighten the world as a sunflower brightens a field."
Compassion
"Advice from a sunflower. Be bright sunny and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight."
Motivation
"Sturdy your stem, open your petals wide, reach for the warmth, and feel life pulsing through your entire being, for you are a sunflower."
"She is a sunflower—strong and bold, and true to herself."
"You do not need to steal other people's sunshine because you, my sunflower, are sunshine itself."
"To just have one sunflower would make me happy."
Contentment
"Stand tall and face the sun."
"She is a sunflower - strong and bold, and true to herself."
"A sunflower is always sun-kissed."
"Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight."
