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• My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sarcasm, Voice, Effort

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.117, Harmony

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• Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
  The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

  Louis Kahn

  Wall, Firsts, Architecture

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• Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

  Simone Elkeles

  Rain, Sunflower, Doe

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• I am sunlight slicing the dark.

  Rumi

  Dark

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.132, Penguin UK

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• In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Winter, Fire, Snow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Expression, Simplicity

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.115, Oxford University Press

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• No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

  Christine Quinn

  Believe, Way, Hiding

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• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

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• Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.

  Walter Moers

  Summer, Wine, Cacophony

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press

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• What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

  Martha Graham

  Done, Awareness

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• I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.

  Samir Geagea

  Squares, Air, Years

  "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad". Lebanese Forces.com, July 26, 2005.

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• One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Dark, Sky, Flying

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.256, Egmont UK

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• See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Brother, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Clouds, Looks

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.120, Harmony

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• I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

  Miranda July

  Water, Mind, Body

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.22, Canongate Books

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• And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, War, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Love Is, Water, Littles

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Brief History of the Dead”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

  Robin McKinley

  Laughter, Stones, Humans

  Robin Mckinley (2008). “Chalice”, p.55, Penguin

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• When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

  Gene Wolfe

  Pain, Rain, Justice

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

  Ann Brashares

  Kids, Dark, Lunch

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• Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.

  Denise Levertov

  Laughter, Eye, Hands

  Denise Levertov (1987). “Poems 1968-1972”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

  Richard Bach

  Kids, Air, Feelings

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