Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity"
Sunlight quotes
Sunlight
65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life."
B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Teacher
"Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight."
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love."
e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"Lovers alone wear sunlight."
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"Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
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"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."
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"The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world."
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"Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive."
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"Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn."
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"The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-"
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"I am sunlight slicing the dark."
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"Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?"
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"And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour."
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"he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."
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"My place is in the sunlight of opportunity."
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"Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full."
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"I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being."
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"The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell."
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"What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness."
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"Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers."
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"There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension."
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