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Sunrises and sunsets are one of the simple joys of life

• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things … A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear. The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see. The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless. Time spent with good friends for there are those who are lonely. A walk along the beach for there are those who cannot walk. The little things are what life is all about. Search your soul and learn to appreciate. Shadi Souferian
• There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. Jo Walton
• The sun,  Sunshine,  Beauty

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Sunsets and sunrises are the crowning glories of nature

• As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals. Wilferd A. Peterson
• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.  It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day.  It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.  Hamlin Garland
• It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot, Blackfoot
• Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. Thomas Hardy
• At sunset, nature is painting for us … day after day … pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin
• What riches are ours in the world of nature, from the majesty of the distant peak to the fragile beauty of a tiny flower, and all without cost to us, the beholders! No person is poor who has watched a sunrise or who keeps a mountain in his or her heart.  Esther Baldwin York
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Sunrises and sunsets are things of great beauty …

• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver
• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins
• There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes. Bob Dylan
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… and gorgeous colour

• Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. Mattie Stepanek
• Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. K. Rowling
• The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples… Anna Godbersen
• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac, On the
• Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. Roberto Bolaño
• Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist. Mia Kirshner, I Live Here
• Orange is one of God’s favorite colors— He stuck it right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow. He decorates entire forests with shades of orange every autumn. It shows up in sunrises at the start of the day, sunsets at the end of the day, and in the glow of the moon at the right time of night. Reggie Joiner
• It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn. Walter J. Phillips
• The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold. Thomas Cole
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Sunsets and sunrises are things of great wonder …

• It’s simple things, like a glowing sunset, the sound of a running stream or the fresh smell in a meadow that cause us to pause and marvel at the wonder of life, to contemplate its meaning and significance. Who can hold an autumn leaf in their hand, or sift the warm white sand on the beach, and not wonder at the Creator of it all? Wendy Moore
• Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. Adriaan Kortlandt
• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
• People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. Carl R. Rogers
• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. Ansel Adams
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… something far greater than a simple formula or equation

• Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. Louis Orr
• Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Dan Brown

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Sunrises and sunsets are an experience of the divine

• Every sunrise is a message from God. Every sunset has His signature.
• Human experience is already experience of God. Our journey on earth is already a journey to heaven.  Seeing a sunrise or a flower is already seeing God.  Carlo Carretto
• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
• We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face.  We may not even see it as God.  But it is there.  It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset.  It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can’t quite recall.  It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.  Kent Nerburn
• Watch for glimpses of the divine order. Find those experiences, sights, and sounds which fill you with awe.  Any experience met with awe can be spiritual:  a safari through an animal kingdom, taking in a sunset, a hike to an awesome mountaintop.  Susan
• In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.  Maud Hart Lovelace
• If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
• Peace is seeing the sunset and knowing who to thank.
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Sunrises and sunsets are a thing of goodness and peace

• The sensitive man can freshen his trust in the ultimate goodness of things from a glowing sunset, can renew his inward peace with a forest walk. Nature lovingly speaks to him, all wordless though she be. Paul Brunton
• Peace is seeing the sunset and knowing who to thank.
• May every sunrise bring you hope; may every sunset bring you peace.
• Goodness,  Inner peace

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Sunrises and sunsets put on a continuous grand show

• The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. John Muir

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What makes sunsets and sunrises special is that they are so fleeting

• Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. Richard Paul Evans
• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot
• Sunrise doesn’t last all morning, a cloudburst doesn’t last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It’s not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away. George Harrison
• Impermanence,  Life is fleeting

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Watch more sunrises and sunsets …

• …stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.  Robert J. Hastings, Tinyburg Tales
• I will take time each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset, or listen to the sound of the ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. Deepak Chopra

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… and let them inspire you …

• Passion doesn’t come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all.  You are the source.  Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire. Jennifer James
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… and give you perspective

• Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.  Robb Sagendorph
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Savour and appreciate sunrises and sunsets …

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman
• The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. Michael Josephson
• In Buddhism, it is considered appropriate and helpful to cultivate and enhance our well-being. We often overlook the well- being that is easily available in daily life. Even taking time to enjoy one’s tea or the sunset can be a training in well- being. Gil Fronsdal
• Your body can be one of the greatest sources of pleasure when you open your five senses fully and experience the physical wonder of being alive. Pleasure can come in the form of sight, like when you see a magnificent sunset, or taste, like when you eat a favorite food. It can come as a glorious musical sound or the soft touch of a lover. The only secret to learning the lesson of pleasure is to make time and space for it in your life. Cherie Carter-Scott
• There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed.  Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it.  Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!  DeGriff
• Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!  Mehmet Murat ildan
• Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!   JoyBell C.
• Savouring,  Appreciation

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… by being fully present without engaging the mind

• Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought – and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees. Osho
• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Inscribe on your heart, every inch of the time at sunset.
• May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. Sara June Parker
• The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. Chris Evans
• Watching the clock is not the same as watching a sunrise. Sophia Bedford Pierce
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Use sunrise and sunset as a time for meditation and yoga

• Yoga practitioners advise the times around sunrise and sunset, well before eating a meal, as the best time for yoga and meditation practice. The science of biometeorology (the study of natural forces on human and animal life) tells us that the sun has a tremendous impact upon the lives of plants, animals, and human beings. Even our blood chemistry changes with the rising and setting of the sun! Therefore, there may be a chemical basis for the thousands of years of belief, in every spiritual tradition, that to meditate and pray at sunrise and sunset is somehow more effective, more auspicious. Vimala Schneider McClure
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Welcome a sunrise as the start of a new day full of potential and opportunity

• Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up… Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset. Alonzo Newton Benn
• This day is all you have and these hours are now your eternity. Greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. Og Mandino
• Potential,  Opportunity,  Embrace the gift of today

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Sunrises and sunsets make great metaphors for life …

• Clouds come into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
• Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. Vera Nazarian
• If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. George MacDonald
• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. Laurence Olivier
• Oh, gentle spirit, fly free on wings of grace… rise beyond sunset skies into the dawns of paradise. D’Angelo
• People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. Carl R. Rogers
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… and love

• Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. French Proverb
• If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office. George Lucas
• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
• For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples… Anna Godbersen
• There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes. Bob Dylan
• Sunrise doesn’t last all morning, a cloudburst doesn’t last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It’s not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away. George Harrison
• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.  Norman Maclean
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Sunrises and sunsets symbolise new beginnings

• Another sunrise, another new beginning. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• With each sunrise, we start anew.
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Sunsets symbolise endings …

• Even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.
• How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
• The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. William Faulkner
• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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… and the promise of a new dawn

• Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life is all about enjoying every sunset and looking forward for the next Sunrise. Sandeep Shergill

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Sunrises and sunsets symbolise hope

• There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Bernard Williams
• Every sunset gives us one day less to live but every sunrise gives us one day more to hope. Ritu Ghatourey
• It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.  Bern Williams
• A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow. Jeb Dickerson
• May every sunrise bring you hope; may every sunset bring you peace.
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When sunset comes, be closer to your goal than you were at sunrise

• Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. Elbert Hubbard
• Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up… Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset. Alonzo Newton Benn
• With every new sunrise there is a new chance; but with every sunset you blew it.  Jack Handey
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• Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. Terri Guillemets
• Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. Mark Twain
• If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream. Jarod Kintz
• There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. Mindy Kaling
• The morning always has a way of creeping up on me and peeking in my bedroom windows. The sunrise is such a pervert. Jarod Kintz
• I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight. Jarod Kintz
• Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained. Woody Allen
• With every new sunrise there is a new chance; but with every sunset you blew it.  Jack Handey

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