Definition of Sunshine

Sunshine

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.

Sunshiny; bright.

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Sunshine Quotations

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Euripides

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward

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.
John Ruskin

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Orison Swett Marden

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Ella Maillart

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Diogenes

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

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.
E. M. Forster

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter

Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.
Krist Novoselic

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Sunshine Translations

sunshine in Afrikaans is son
sunshine in Dutch is zonneschijn
sunshine in German is Sonnenschein
sunshine in Portuguese is luz do sol
sunshine in Spanish is solana
sunshine in Swedish is solsken

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