Luther Burbank
Horticulturist
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
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Sunshine
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John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
Lesley Gore
Singer-songwriter
"Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way"
Harper Lee
Novelist
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
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"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
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"If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning."
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"Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine."
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"When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.""
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"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
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"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
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"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not."
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"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
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"A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life."
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"O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning."
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"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside."
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"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."
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"Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness."
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"Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain."
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"Mozart is sweet sunshine."
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"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."
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"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
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"Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."
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"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
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"All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty."
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