Sunlight Quotes - Page 13

• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

  Tadao Ando

  Believe, Wind, Too Much

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• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Equality, Men

  Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

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• The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner

  Health, Light, Cells

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Levitation, Way

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Determination, Exercise

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• Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Stars, Autumn

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• Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.

  Maggie Osborne

  Summer, Eye, Heart

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• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Christian, Air, Long Ago

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

  Bill McKibben

  Powerful, Thinking, Names

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• God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sadness, Night, Years

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  Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Blue, Heaven

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Darkness, Darkness To Light

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• A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Rain, Color, Soul

  Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”

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• Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

  Emily Carr

  Two, Tree, Shadow

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.314, D & M Publishers

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• The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Men, Lazy Man, Play

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• Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

  David Travis

  Block, Clouds, Natural

  "9/11 study: Air traffic affects climate". Interview with Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2002.

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• When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Real, Thinking, Squares

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• Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

  Tim Tharp

  Mean, Color, Textbooks

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• A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

  Herman Cain

  Government, Vampire, Gold

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• You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Spring, Bird

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Views

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