Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light. — Abdu'l-Bahá
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. — Ovid
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. — Hillel the Elder
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
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. — Ursula K. Le Guin
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. — Thomas Jefferson
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' — Steven Wright
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. — James Keller
When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Short Candles Quotes
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis of Assisi
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
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R. R. Martin
Extinguishing the light of other peoples candles, does not make yours burn brighter.
Burning Candles 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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in 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
There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw
Burning Candle Love Quotes
The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. — Leonard Cohen
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live. — Leo Tolstoy
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. — Christopher Hitchens
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them. — Kate Thornton
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
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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. — Christopher Hitchens
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. — E. M. Forster
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
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 good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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 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
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
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller
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
Candle Lights Quotes
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
All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. — Confucius
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
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
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
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
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
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
Blow Candle Quotes
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
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
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 is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? — Rumi
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever. — Jimmy Buffett
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. — Robert H. Shaffer
Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision. — Caroline Myss
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