Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. — Roger Waters
I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it. — Nicole Kidman
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night — Yosa Buson
I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. — Loreena McKennitt
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. — Benjamin Franklin
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. — Confucius
When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. — Hillel the Elder
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. — Confucius
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi
Short Candle Lights Quotes
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis of Assisi
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. — Adlai Stevenson
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. — Joseph Joubert
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese Proverbs
You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours. — Patrick Kane
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese Proverbs
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R. R. Martin
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. — Thomas Jefferson
Candle Lights Image Quotes
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Candlelight Quotes
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. — Henny Youngman
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. — Madi Diaz
I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind. — Joe Hill
Extinguishing the light of other peoples candles, does not make yours burn brighter.
I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco. — Dave Grohl
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please. — Rod McKuen
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune. — Robert Hunter
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament. — Sally Quinn
There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men! — Calvin Coolidge
Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset. — Stephen Colbert
Candles Burning Quotes
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. — Jack Kerouac
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special. — John Spence
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle. — James Howell
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home. — Erin Heatherton
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. — Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. — Buddha
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' — Steven Wright
Candle Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. — Confucius
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need. — Max Lucado
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many. — William Bradford
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out — Katherine Dunham
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. — Neal A. Maxwell
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? — Ralph Marston
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom. — Rene Russo
Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded. — Craig Kilborn
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian. — Denis Diderot
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. — Marilyn vos Savant
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. — Tim Vine
Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield. — David Gemmell
It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake. — Louie Giglio
Blow The Candle Quotes
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' — Jerry Seinfeld
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . — Tennessee Williams
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch something on my birthday. I don't want it to be from the cake. If you know what I'm saying. — Craig Ferguson
I continue to believe, and Trump has cleverly put fear on the ballot and fear in the eyes of folks, and my parents taught me that if you blow out your neighbor's candle, it doesn't make your candle shine any brighter. — Thomas Perez
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. — Charles Spurgeon
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them. — Tommy Cooper
how seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world. — Irving Layton
Night Light Quotes
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. — Teresa of Avila
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form. — Richard Meier
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. — Irving Berlin
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. — Giotto di Bondone
If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. — Joe Frazier
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. — Archilochus
Christmas Lights Quotes
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. — Helen Steiner Rice
Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. — Steve Israel
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. — Ruth Carter Stapleton
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man. — Wilferd Peterson
We were created to manifest the glory of God on the Earth. Let your light shine! — Folorunsho Alakija
Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are. — N. T. Wright
You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are. — Steve Jobs
We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? — Wernher Von Braun
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long. — Howard Thurman
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. — Leo Tolstoy
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men. — Michael Faraday
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light. — Jodi Picoult
I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they have to do big things in order to make change. But if each one would light a candle we'd have a tremendous light. — Thea Bowman
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. — Billy Graham
Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire. — Deepak Chopra
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. — Irving Greenberg
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives. — Ralph Levy
If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for. — Neil Young
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — Albert Schweitzer
You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time. — Coco Chanel
In Babylon 1750 BC, 1 hour of light from a sesame oil lamp would’ve cost you more than 50 hours of work. A tallow candle in the 1800s would’ve cost you over 6 hours of work for the same amount of light. Today, on average, it would cost you less than half a second of working time. — Peter Diamandis
One idea lights a thousand candles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. — Robert Alden
My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness. — Matthew Gray Gubler
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