Radiate Positivity: A Collection of Sunshine Inspirational Quotes

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Look at the sunny side of everything."

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Jack Ma

"Friends are the sunshine of life."

- John Hay

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

- Helen Keller

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Frank Lane

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Roman Payne

"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

- Thomas Mann

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

- Max Müller

"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

- Morris West

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

- David Viscott

"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

"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

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

- Victor Hugo

"Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward."

- Nelson Mandela

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

- John Ruskin

"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 try to follow where they lead."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Yann Martel

"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

"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

"Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet."

- Rhonda Byrne

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

- Arthur Rimbaud

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Nandina Morris

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat."

- Miranda Kerr

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Marc Jacobs

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

- Romain Rolland

"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

"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

"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

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

- Clara Louise Burnham

"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

"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

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

- Yann Martel

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

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Thomas Browne

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

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

- James Thomas Fields

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

- Arna Bontemps

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

- Edith Södergran

"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

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

- Elvis Presley