#sunshine

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

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. ↗

— Helen Keller

#sun

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #loneliness #sunshine #life

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#bearing #brunt #circumstances #clouds #dark

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

#equality

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

— Dustin Hoffman

#coconut #items #life #milk #necessary

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

— Anne Bronte

#corn #laughed #light #over #sunshine

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#duty #find #follow #happiness #own

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ↗