What does this quote mean?

Question

"Where there is always sunshine, there is a desert below."

Answer 1

"Where there is always sunshine, there is a desert below."

The beauty of a well rounded person is that they have endured the bad with the good. It's not just the positives in our life that define us, but the obstacles we encounter as well. When we meet that bump in the road we must find a way to maneuver around it.....or jump in and take care of the problem. We'll make mistakes; we'll find more problems and more issues. But the point is, we learn along the way from the conflicts we encounter. And in the long run.......it makes a much better person filled with so many more experiences and life lessons.

The quote reminds us that if our lives are always filled with the good (sunshine) we wind up barren or empty. We have had everything given to us in such an easy way that we've not had to work at anything. It's the work.....the accomplishment.....the experiences that allow that garden to grow and bloom and prosper. We have to have the rain.....and the storms and the thunder and hail.......otherwise........we dry up and become barren like the desert.

(beautiful question!!!!!)

Answer 2

I would take it to mean: "You can have too much of a good thing". Sunshine is usually taken to be a good thing - light, heat, - think of expressions like "sunny disposition", "a day without _____ (fill in the blank) is like a day without sunshine", etc. But a desert is bad, comparatively, no water, no plants, no life. If permanent sunshine above results in a desert below then too much of a good thing can have deleterious consequences.

Answer 3

It's about people being fake. If someone always is happy (always sunshine), there has to be something wrong (dry like a desert) below the surface. No one can be constantly happy! So, if someone is "always sunshine," they're really "dry" below the surface of their apparent happiness.

Answer 4

in a desert there is little to no rain therefore there are no clouds and always sunshine. in a litteral lsence,but i believe that it represents life. If your life is all sunshine that means that your life has been very easy. the clouds come when we go and face the challenges that ara always an opportunity to improve ourselfs and our way of life. that is what this saying means

Answer 5

It means Aristotle had a lot of free time to figure things out..or rain is a good thing. See the answerer "Aristotle" on this site..hah!..he complained about coming back after 2357 years only to receive a violation notice on his first question!!! Now do you see why I prefer to remain unreachable? I'm not sure who got in to my machine but I intend to find out, for all the good it will do!..go France!(oops) ps..i have a feeling i'll last about three more questions before the leaderboard comes down on my head.

Answer 6

Sunshine = good
Desert = bad
So, it means that with the good, you have to take the bad as well.

Answer 7

It's a reference to blondes being dumb.
Where there is sunshine is the Blonde hair
There is desert below is that it is empty, devoid of life or thought, barren.

Answer 8

I interpret it to mean that no situation is perfect, no matter how good something sounds there is a downside to everything. The quote refers to a popular fantasy, to live in a place where the sun always shines, it never rains, it's never cloudy. But it gives the downside that in that particular fantasy the earth would become barren and everything would die.

Answer 9

I think it means that the sun is always shining in the desert...its just an obsevation, stop reading into it

Answer 10

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