44 Sunshine Quotes to Bring Some Positivity to Your Day (2024)

In 1974, Los Angeles radio psychiatrist David Viscott wrote in his book How to Live with Another Person, "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also,” poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his first series of collected essays.

Singer Noel Gallagher, who was once part of the rock band Oasis, sang "Thank you for the sun / The one that shines on everyone / Who feels love,” in the song "Who Feels Love?," which was a track on the 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

Political and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher, who served as a Congregational clergyman, said “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy,” in the collection Life Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by E.D. Procter.

"Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays," English priest and poet John Keble, wrote in his book of poems The Christian Year.

Also in The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, the writer who led the American Transcendental movement said “The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”

Max Müller, a German scholar and philologist wrote "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love," in his book, Memories: A Story of German Love.

"I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you," Anne Frank, whose diary is one of the most discussed accounts of the Holocaust, was quoted saying in the 1959 edition of her collected works.

Henry David Thoreau, who, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a leading voice in the Transcendentalism movement, said in his journal "I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days..."

“There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day,” Yann Martel wrote in his book Life of Pi, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller.

Caitlin Moran, an English journalist and author wrote in her book How to Build a Girl, “It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.”

Victor Hugo, the French poet, novelist, and dramatist, said in Les Misérables, which was first published in 1862, "A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."

"Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet," Rhonda Byrne, an Australian author and television producer said in her guide The Secret Daily Teachings.

Charles Dickens personified the sun in The Old Curiosity Shop, "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on,"

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth,” French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote in his poem "Sun and Flesh."

Don Miguel Ruiz, spiritual teacher and author, told the Huffington Post, “The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun."

Nelson Mandela, who formerly served as the president of South Africa, shared his words of wisdom in his book Notes to the Future, "Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward."

In a Cosmopolitan interview, Marc Jacobs, a powerhouse in the world of fashion, revealed his favorite place to daydream. "Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas."