Quotation Explorer - 'Candle'

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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
Don’t criticize or curse at darkness; be wise and never forget to light a candle. - Debasish Mridha
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. - Roy Bennett
You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".~ [2012] - R. Alan Woods
The Candle HolderBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, Your light I wish to see.I am the candle holder, reveal yourself to me. -- - Reed Abbitt Moore
The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever. - Adriano Bulla
Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. - Stephen King
A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it. - Edith Warton 18621937
At the bottom of the human well, there should always be a candle of compassion. - A.J. Garces
Better light a candle than curse the darkness. - Confucius possibly
Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. - William Penn
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - Saint Francis of Assisi
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. - Sara Teasdale
Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive. - Debasish Mridha
Stop thinking about the easy way out,There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done,You're far too young. - Nickelback band
Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world. - Debasish Mridha
A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again. - Wes Adamson
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing. - Joan Clark
If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. - Munia Khan
One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. - Gail Thackray
You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light. - Debasish Mridha
CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low,it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright. - Piet Hein
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Budha
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again! - E.Nesbit
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
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? - Jalaluddin Rumi
Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility. - Debasish Mridha
Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire - Marilyn Manson
Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted. - Hema Aushat
Shine like a candle of love to enlighten the world like the moon. - Debasish Mridha
There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
Just like a candle burns its flame, my heart burns it’s everlasting love for you. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out. - Katherine Dunham
Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights. - Santosh Kalwar
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Light a candle; share the beauty; share the light. Share the blessings and share the delight. - Debasish Mridha
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle - Ambrose Bierce
Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind. - Debasish Mridha
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. - Jalaluddin Rumi
I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I’ve not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I’ve somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The candle cannot burn without fire, similarly, your spiritual greatness cannot be measured without hardships - AbdulAziz Mohammed
If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind. - Debasish Mridha
What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle. - Kenny D. Eichenberg
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target. - Michael Grant
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light. - Raphael Zernoff
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. - Ursula K. Le Guin
I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit - Ann Everett
A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle. - G.R. Gopinath
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us - Jim Morrison
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. - Sir Thomas Malory
Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the middle of the night. - Santosh Kalwar
Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick - Munia Khan
It is far better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. - W. L. Watkinson
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. - Stephen King
Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle.. - Sarvesh Jain
Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun! - Mehmet Murat ildan
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
We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we possess the eagle's eye, the eye that can see the invisible. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others. - Sayagyi U Ba Khin
If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your life will be the reflection of your mind, of your thoughts! If there is a candle in your mind, your life will not know what utter darkness is! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. - Benjamin Franklin
Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness . - gaurav rao
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010] - Anna Quindlen
Education is a candle that kindles and enlightens our mind. - Debasish Mridha
A candle can't cease the darkness, the fear that it may extinguish is itself dark. Adapt to darkness and there will be no darkness within. - Tushar Chauhan
There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system... - Milton Friedman
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. - A.D. Posey
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. - Jeph Jacques
If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle. - David Nicholls
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. - Anne Frank
a soldier's mind is made of rock; the heart of a candle. - Srinivas Shenoy
Light a candle against the darkness... - Sylvain Reynard
What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? - Peggy Toney Horton
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