#sunshine

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #do-the-best #excel #excellence #excellent

After 50 years together as a couple: "Look how fast the leaves are falling now," Alan says. "The trees will be bare in a couple of days. Do you realize that we have watched the leaves fall together for more than fifty autumns?" I stand quietly, looking at Alan, letting his words sink in. I am suddenly so moved. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #love-story #norman-sunshine #life

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#beauty-in-nature #flowers #summer #sunlight #sunshine

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#cross #false #friends #instant #into

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. ↗

— Diogenes

#cannot #give #i #intercepting #may

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#adversity #always #better #cherish #dark

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#coconut #items #life #milk #necessary

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#enough #flower #freedom #just #just living

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#corn #laughed #light #over #sunshine