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Each night, the sun goes down …   

• I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed. Edvard Munch
• Sunrises and sunsets,  The moon,  Sunshine

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… to bring the onset of night   

• The sun declined, and we both fell into twilight silence. Night, which in autumn seems to fall from the sky at once, it comes so quickly, chilled us, and we rolled ourselves in our cloaks… Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

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Every morning the run rises …   

• How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Arthur Conan Doyle
• I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. Pete Hamill

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… often creating a spectacle of great beauty   

• The sun rose brilliantly above, reflecting the hues of red, orange, lavender and blue in the pond before me. The viridian shadows changed to lemon yellow and lime green as the light washed the morning and I tried in vain to save a piece of this miracle on canvas. Mary Erickson
• Beauty,  Sunrises and sunsets, 

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The sun is our great source of light   

• The light that comes from the sun illuminates the whole world; and that which is in the moon, and in the fire; know that light to be Mine. Bhagavad Gita
• Light

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The sun shines in radiant glory   

• 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. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
• The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy. Arthur Conan Doyle
• The sun has come out… and the air is vivid with spring light. Byron Caldwell Smith
• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. Brigham Young
• The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. Arthur Rimbaud
• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir
• Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman
• Sunshine

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The sun, when it shines, makes everything feel possible …   

• When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Wilma Rudolph
• Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren’t. Laurie Halse Anderson
• Possibility

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… while without the sun, everything can feel gloomy   

• The winter here’s cold and bitter, it’s chilled us to the bone. We haven’t seen the sun for weeks, too long too far from home. I feel just like I’m sinking, and I claw for solid ground. I’m pulled down by the undertow, I never thought I could feel so. Sarah McLachlan
• The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
• An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining… Francis Brett Young
• Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables. Charles Kingsley

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The sun is full of divinity   

• I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars… I awaken everything to life. Ildergard of Bingen
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature– trees, flowers, grass–grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. Isaac Newton
• There is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God. Roberta Bondi
• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. Albert Pike
• God Made the earth, the sky and the water, the moon and the sun. He made man and bird and beast. But He didn’t make the dog. He already had one. Native American saying
• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. Sathya Sai Baba
• God

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The sun is a great provider of energy   

• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy… If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Sir George Porter
• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. Thomas Alva Edison
• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Ralph Nader
• The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. Stephanie Mills
• Energy management

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The sun gives life …   

• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Seneca

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… and ripens fruit …   

• The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn’t ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know. Elizabeth Coatsworth
• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages. Cyrano De Bergerac
• The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. Galileo Galilei  

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… and makes flowers bloom   

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! Sai Baba
• The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. Robert Leighton
• The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it. Ratu Bagus
• Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. Terri Guillemets
• A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true. Ray Evans
• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower –     the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.    Helen Keller
• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. Vera Nazarian
• Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. Janet Fitch
• The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud. Paula Cole
• Flowers

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The sun, beloved by the artists, makes colours live   

• How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. Vincent van Gogh
• I know I cannot paint a flower. I cannot paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning, but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. Georgia O’Keeffe
• We were always intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors live. Andre Derain
• My favorite color to glaze with is yellow. It always glows just like stained glass lit up by the sun. Jane Jones
• As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock
• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso
• It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails. Romain Rolland
• Art

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The sun shines for all of us alike   

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. Henry Ward Beecher
• The sun dries without prejudice the garments of the rich and the poor.
• The sun also shines on the wicked. Seneca
• The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. t. Wombat
• Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
• Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. Mahalia Jackson
• When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
• The sun will shine into our yard too. Proverb
• The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. African Proverb

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Take pleasure in the sun and enjoy the sunlight   

• Take pleasure in the senses. Focus on the sweetness of the ripe mango, the aroma of the bakery, or the warmth of the sun when you step out from the shade.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Gordon B. Hinckley
• Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? Matthew Arnold
• There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe.  Joseph W. Beach
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. Robin S. Sharma
• At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun. Sandy Gingras
• A summer’s sun is worth the having. French Proverb
• Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Bible
• All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more. Frank Sinatra
• Pleasure,  Savouring

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Make hay while the sun shines …   

• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke
• But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun. The Beatles
• Make hay while the sun shines. Miguel de Cervantes
• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent
• So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry. Bible
• Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke

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… but also make provision for rainy days   

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy
• He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun; he lived a life of going to do and died with nothing done. James Albery
• For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day. Benjamin Franklin
• Preparation

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Dance in the sun   

• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Shutz
• Dancing

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Rise with the sun   

• Do you know why most people sleep so much?” “Why?” “Because they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common.” “Insanity?” “Very funny. No, they all have a purpose that fans the flames of their inner potential. Robin Sharma

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Make sure you get sunlight every day   

• Get some exercise. Exercise both calms you and energizes you. If you can’t face going to the gym or going for a run, just go for a ten- minute walk outside. The sunlight and the movement will boost your spirits. Gretchen Rubin
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Let the shining sun fill you with contentment   

• As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon. Russian Proverb
• Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I’d like to express my thanks; I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. Irving Berlin
• The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money. Titus Maccius Plautus
• Contentment

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Be grateful at the rise of the sun for another day …   

• The angel of death can teach us to live as if it is the last day of our lives, as if there may be no tomorrow. We can begin each day by saying, “I am alive, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am alive.  One more day to be myself.  Don Miguel Ruiz
• As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. Adabella Radici
• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. Ninon de Lenclos
• Gratitude,  Appreciation,  Sunrises and sunsets, 

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… and grateful again when the sun sets   

• Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Each day resolve to live well until the sun goes down   

• Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, from now until nightfall. 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. Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely. Alexandra Elle
• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. John Ruskin
• Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down — as we all must — and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn. Bill Clinton
• I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today. Abraham Cowley   

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May the sun warm your face   

• May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. Irish Blessing
• May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun and find your shoulder to light on, to bring you luck, happiness and riches today, tomorrow and beyond. Irish Blessing
• May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two.  May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.  May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.  May the hand of a friend always be near you.  And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.  Irish Blessings
• These things I warmly wish for you Someone to love, some work to do, A bit o’ sun, a bit o’ cheer, And a guardian angel always near. Irish Blessings
• May the sun shine all day long, everything go right and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true!  Irish Blessings

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Open your soul to the sun   

• The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier
• The soul

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Go forwards, towards the sun   

• Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer

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Reach for the sun   

• It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. Joyce Maynard
• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston
• If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star. T. Barnum

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Keep your face to the sun   

• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori Proverb
• Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. Helen Keller
• I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela
• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
• Stand a little less between me and the sun. Diogenes
• Cheerfulness,  Optimism

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Shine like the sun   

• We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…  John Lennon
• We all have a divine mission on earth. Let that mission be to inspire love and embrace the light within. Let that mission be to have peace in our hearts as we create heaven on earth. Let that mission be to seek empowerment through transformation and to breathe joy into everything we do. If we allow these things to be our mission the golden light of the sun will shine on our souls and change our world forever. Micheal Teal
• The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. We shine different ways in the seaons of our lives.  Terri Guillemets
• 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 Kübler-Ross
• You can turn off the sun, but I’m still gonna shine. Jason Mraz  
• We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. Marianne Williamson
• 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

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Never let the sun go down on your anger   

• Anger may repast with you for an hour, but not repose with you for a night. The continuance of Anger, is hatred; the continuance of hatred becomes malice; that Anger is not warrantable that has suffered the sun to set on it. Wellins Calcott
• Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. BIBLE, Ephesians 4:26
• Anger

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Learn from the sun for it has much to teach   

• I open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance.  I learn from all I encounter.  I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.  Julia Cameron
• The stars the moon and the sun…so old, so wise. Think of what they’ve seen. Paluszak
• To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything. Albert Camus
• Learning

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Worship the sun   

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. Thomas More
• I’ve begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no one asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to “God” are all answered at about the same 50% rate. George Carlin
• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon
• The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. Thomas Paine
• I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun. Jane Austen
• Worship

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The sun is within you   

• You are a second world in miniature; the sun and moon are within you, and also the stars. Origen
• Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us…  John Muir
• When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Seán O’Casey
• You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. Maxwell Maltz
• When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. Pablo Picasso
• The light that comes from the sun illuminates the whole world; and that which is in the moon, and in the fire; know that light to be Mine. Bhagavad Gita
• The treasure within

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You are no less part of the universe than the sun   

• The and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time… Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again. H. Lawrence
• The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you’re an integral part of the natural world. Wayne Dyer
• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea… There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute, except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. D. H. Lawrence
• The universe

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The real you is like the sun   

• 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
• Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Awaken to who you are

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Just as the sun operates in perfect order, so does your life   

• The Universe is in perfect order. The stars, the moon, and the sun are all operating in perfect Divine right order. There is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to their pathways. I am part of the Universe; therefore, I know that there is an order, a rhythm, and a purpose to my life.  Louise L Hay
• Divine order

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Life is your limited time in the sun   

• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often- why I bother to get up in the mornings. Richard Dawkins
• For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance. Kahlil Gibran

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Life is only so many trips around the sun   

• Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. Ann Druyan
• Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
• Life is fleeting

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Have faith that no matter how dark the clouds, the sun is shining behind them   

• The sun always shines above the clouds. Paul F. Davis
• The lower energy fields are like clouds covering the sun. As we remove the clouds, we experience the sun, which is always shining. David R. Hawkins
• Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. Roy R. Gilson
• Know that behind even the darkest clouds, the sun is still shining.
• Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• I believe in the sun when it’s not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent. Irish Sayings
• The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. Robert Leighton
• Adversity,  Trust,  Faith

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Have faith that no matter how dark the day, the sun will come out again   

• Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences.  So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.   Tersteegen
• When the hard times of life come, we know that no matter how tragic the circumstances seem, no matter how long the spiritual drought, no matter how long and dark the days, the sun is sure to break through; the dawn will come. Gloria Gaither
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Have faith that no matter how dark the night, the sun will rise again   

• You are never dedicated to something that you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Robert M. Pirsig
• The sunrise never failed us yet. Celia Thaxter
• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. David Matthew
• It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,’ she said. It seems to be true,’ he admitted. ‘I wonder why.’  Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun. David Gemmell
• Though the sun goes down, it will rise to-morrow; And life is not over yet. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Have faith that when the sun is gone, the stars appear   

• Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars. Violeta Parra
• Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.
• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Rabindranath Tagore
• The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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The sun is an abundant source of metaphors …   

• A cloud cannot cast a shadow unless the sun is shining beyond it.
• Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the Sun. Charles Caleb Colton
• If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching. Lord Chesterfield
• The sun will set without your assistance. The Talmud
• As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock
• The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter. Marquis de Vauvenargues
• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Langston Hughes
• Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. William Shakespeare
• Metaphors to live by

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… spiritual metaphors…   

• Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun…. Don’t be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure. White Eagle
• Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.  Aberjhani
• All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. Rumi
• Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. Rumi

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… metaphors for the mind and its thoughts…   

• Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche
• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. Sigmund Freud
• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. Henry David Thoreau
• The mind,  Thinking

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… metaphors for virtue…   

• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes. William Shakespeare
• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller
• Just as the Sun is respected for providing heat and energy to the world, in the same manner you too can attain respect in this world by acquiring knowledge. Rig Veda
• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer
• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars. Fernan Caballero
• Charm is captivating. Just as the petals of a flower unfold and open to the warmth and light of the sun, so do we unfold and open to the enchantment of charm. Charm acts as the Great Attractor, drawing us toward its magnetic source. Thokoza
• All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that wisdom is within ourselves … then we may know the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us. Vivekananda
• When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage. Ponca Chief White Eagle
• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. William Shakespeare
• Reliability is a quality that one holds for the convenience of other men. Reliability is that in you which lends you worth in the lives of others. It is important that men should know just what to expect of you. Life is fluid and uncertain. The sun and moon and the stars go His appointed way. We learn to live by knowing that at given times the earth turns its cheek to the sun and swings evenly on its axis. So it is with character; there is no peace, no progress, where there is unreliability. It makes a chaotic world in which each man checks the other instead of helping him. Louise Collier Willcox    
• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. Akhenaton
• Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting.  The sun, having set, comes up.  The tide ebbs, but always flows in again.  Fred van Amburgh
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… metaphors for laughter…   

• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. Linda Ellerbee
• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo
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… metaphors for encouragement…   

• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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… metaphors for the power of focus…   

• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope.  Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight.  Find the light in each other and just fan it.  Alice O. Howell
• Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Bell
• Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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… metaphors for awareness and consciousness…   

• The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life, reaching far beyond the people and places you can see. Earon Davis
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self- awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self- awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. Nisargadatta Maharaj
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… metaphors for vice…   

• He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. George Eliot
• Pleasure is the sun of the morning, the cloud of the meridian, and the storm of the evening. William Scott Downey
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… metaphors for love, acceptance and oneness…   

• 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 of Shiraz
• Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson
• As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole. John Kehoe
• It is good and true to think that every ray of the sun touching the earth has the sun at the other end of it. Just so, every bit of love upon God’s earth has God at the other end of it.  Mark Guy Pearse
• As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun. Ram Dass
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
• Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them. Jonathan Petit Senn
• Love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
• You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. Thomas Traherne
• The love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri
• Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe. John Lennon
• Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you. Helene Lagerberg
• What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out. Victor Hugo
• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star… E. Cummings
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… metaphors for hope…   

• Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles
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… metaphors for pain and sadness…   

• The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever. Nina LaCour
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. Kahlil Gibran
• When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Seán O’Casey
• When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine. Alanis Morissette
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… metaphors for truth…   

• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha
• Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley
• Opinion is a flitting thing. But Truth outlasts the Sun.  Emily Dickinson
• The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. Ernest Hemingway
• Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time. Christian Nevell Bovee
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… metaphors for friendship…

• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving
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… metaphors for happiness…   

• Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.  Og Mandino
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… metaphors for doubt   

• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out. William Blake
• Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. William Shakespeare
• Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out. William Blake
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To take a photograph is to paint with the sun   

• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. Minor White
• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  Ambrose Bierce
• A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun.
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There is nothing new under the sun   

• Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.  Robertson Davies
• The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Ecclesiastes 1

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Thoughts on the moon and sun   

• The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze. Terri Guillemets
• The moon’s an errant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. William Shakespeare
• The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. Alfred Kreymborg
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• “Wow,” Thalia muttered. “Apollo is hot.” “He’s the sun god,” I said.  “That’s not what I meant.”  Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain
• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent
• Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. Terri Guillemets
• Did the sun come up or did you just smile at me?
• He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. George Eliot
• His ears are so big he heard the sun come up.
• I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight. Jarod Kintz
• I can see the sun okay and that’s 93 million miles away.  Bruce Froemming
• I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I’m pale and I’m redheaded. I don’t tan – I stroke!   Woody Allen
• I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.  Duncan Spaeth
• I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
• I’m trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. I should leave it for a while, it’s too bright to see the numbers at the moment.   Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
• I’ve begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no one asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to “God” are all answered at about the same 50% rate. George Carlin
• If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream. Jarod Kintz
• If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
• If your head is wax don’t walk in the sun.  Benjamin Franklin
• Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
• Looking at a cleavage is like looking at the sun; you don’t stare at it; it’s too risky. Jerry Seinfeld
• Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. Sonny Liston
• Old age is when the gleam in your eyes is just the sun shining on your bifocals.
• On cloudy days I just want to raise my arm up, stand on my toes, and screw a light bulb into the sky. Don’t worry, my light bulb is energy efficient—it runs on solar power. Jarod Kintz
• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  Ambrose Bierce
• 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
• The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.  Paul Ehrlich
• The sun is going to go out in 4 billion years, and you sit there and act like everything is fine.
• There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun. Gerd de Ley
• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.  Ambrose Bierce
• Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.   Sam Ewing
• We were so poor we had to eat dough for breakfast and sit out in the sun for lunch!
• You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones. Keith Richards

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