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“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: summer, sunshine, wine, winter

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“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”
― Dan Simmons, Drood

tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, flowers, summer, sunlight, sunshine

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“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: ability, adoration, bible, bishop, blessing, christ, clergy, food-for-thought, glorify, glory, glow, glowing, god, god-is-good, god-loves-me, honour, human-beings, humble, humility, illuminate, illumination, israelmore-ayivor, jesus, jesus-christ, king-of-kings, light, light-rays, lord-of-lords, love, luminary, moon, own, owner, pastor, planets, praise, praise-the-lord, preaching, pride, produce, proud, radiates, reflect, reflection, reflects, sermon, shine, shines, shining, solar-system, source, sun, sunshine, surface, word-of-god, work-for-god, worship

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“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

tags: best, bittersweet, ockler, sarah, sunshine, times

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“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

tags: darkness, depression, suicide

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