The worst and most tiring time of the year for me in Sweden is usually the late fall and early winter.
The days are cloudy and so short. The darkness and greyness is there for most of the waking hours.
There is just too little sunshine and light.
The early spring and summer are the opposite. So much energy and motivation return with all of that brightness and warmth.
And in today’s post I’d like to celebrate that by sharing 101 of the most beautiful, powerful and inspirational sunshine quotes.
I hope these quotes will help lift your spirits both in the easy and bright times and in the dark times of the season and life.
Short Sunshine Quotes to Help You Shine Like the Sun
“To be happy you must be your own sunshine.”
– C.E. Jerningham
“Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“Friends are the sunshine of life.”
– John Hay
“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”
– Walt Whitman
“O, Sunshine! The most precious gold to be found on earth.”
– Roman Payne
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
– Thomas Mann
“In the sun, I feel as one.”
– Kurt Cobain
“His laughter… sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.”
– Joseph Lelyveld
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
– John Muir
“The sun is new each day.”
– Heraclitus
“My sun sets to rise again.”
– Robert Browning
“The sun is but a morning star.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
– Max Muller
“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”
– Arthur Rimbaud
“The moon only glows when kissed by the sun.”
– R. Queen
“I don’t complain when it’s sunny.”
– Tim Howard
“Sunrays must be the sun’s way of dancing alone.”
– Prem
“Some days you have to create your own sunshine.”
– Sam Sundquist
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
“Dance when the sun comes up.”
– A.D. Posey
“Take me to a place where the sun kisses the ocean.”
– Unknown
“I’ll be your sun, I’ll shine on you. I’ll make you happy; I’ll smile to you.”
– Nouf Alfadl
“Watching the sun kiss her skin made him envy the sun.”
– Unknown
“Rejoice in the sunlight.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational Sunshine Quotes for a Good Morning and Day
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”
– Juansen Dizon
“Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it’s done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.”
– Nabil Toussi
“Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.”
– Debasish Mridha
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Rise up this mornin’, smile with the risin’ sun.”
– Bob Marley
“The morning sun has a lesson to teach us – without judging, love everyone as he does.”
– Debasish Mridha
“In your darkest hour, give thanks, for in due time, the morning will come. And it will come with a ray of sunshine.”
– Michael Bassey Johnson
“Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.”
– Debasish Mridha
“When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!”
– Mehmet Murat ildan
“The morning sun is out and bright. Forcing night sneak away without a fight.”
– Richard L. Ratliff
“The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring.”
– Emily Dickinson
“The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.”
– Anthony T. Hincks
“May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.”
– Debasish Mridha
“The morning is full of sunlight and hope.”
– Kate Chopin
“Have you ever looked up to the bright natural morning light and felt bad? You cannot because this is the light which brings happiness and starts another day in your precious life.”
– Evelyn Snares
“How beautiful is the sunrise! When the golden beams of day shoot upwards in the morning sky, and the clouds of night roll away before the brightness of the dawning.”
– James Yeames
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
– Luther Burbank
“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, it’s not warm when she’s away. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, she’s always gone too long.”
– Andy Breckman
“Saying good morning to the sun is my favorite way to start the day.”
– Tahnni Dupre
“One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday – for gratitude is light against the darkness.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
Positive Sunshine Quotes to Brighten Your Day at Work
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
– Jack Ma
“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”
– Frank Lane
“Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.”
– Shannon L. Alder
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward
“Stay close to people who make you feel like sunshine.”
– Unknown
“Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It’s a unique day today. You can make it amazing.”
– Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Don’t let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.”
– Nandina Morris
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”
– Morris West
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
– James Matthew Barrie
“Look at the sunny side of everything.”
– Christian D. Larson
“Think of the day alive with sunshine, not the dismal days of rain.”
– Robert E. Farley
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
– Mario Fernandez
“If you dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.”
– Curtis Tyrone Jones
“A sunny disposition is worth more than a fortune.”
– Andrew Carnegie
“When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
– Unknown
“Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.”
– Jimmie Davis
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.”
– Marc Jacobs
Funny Sunshine Quotes for a Lighter Mood (and for Your Instagram)
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin
“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.”
– Lee Entrekin
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“You are my sunshine. By that I mean I think you may have damaged me in ways I won’t know about for years to come.”
– Unknown
“I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.”
– Glenn Gould
“You can turn off the sun but I’m still gonna shine.”
– William Golding
“A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anybody.”
– Craig Borten
“Humor – the sunshine of the mind.”
– Bulwer-Lytton
“I’m 100 percent sunshine.”
– Lil Yachty
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“I’ll take a coffee with my sunshine.”
– Unknown
“Sunshine is beautiful when it’s after a rain. If it’s sunshine everyday then it starts burning you.”
– Meeran W. Malik
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.”
– Michele Elder
“I’m convinced that there is nothing truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.”
– Kay Whitley
“Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.”
– Miranda Kerr
Sunshine Quotes and Sayings for Kids
“Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.”
– William Arthur Ward
“Even when it’s raining, the sunshine is still there.”
– Clare Josa
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
– Roald Dahl
“There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.”
– Unknown
“May sunshine surround you each new day. And may smiles and love never be far away.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise.”
– Eric Jerome Dickey
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
“Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”
– Robert Orben
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
“Go down by the bay, enjoy a sun ray, chewing a stick of hay, and let others know you’re here to stay.”
– Percy Lee Anderson
“In a world like ours, all we’ve got to be is the warmth of the morning sun.”
– Michael Bassey Johnson
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”
– Joseph Addison
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want more inspiration for a positive life? Then check out these positive quotes for life, the short inspirational quotes here and also these positive and uplifting summer quotes.