Browsing Topic Best Candle Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

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.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we’re all together and you’re mine for a night. And I’m going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish…that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, ‘I don’t want anything more’. Sixty-five years. Don’t they go by in a blink?

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Burning the candle at both ends for God’s sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don’t believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It’s not something that’s ever going to get fixed.

Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.

I’m also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I’m surprised I haven’t gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center – right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

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

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I’m one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Not crazy in a ‘let’s paint the kitchen bright red!’ sort of way. But crazy in a ‘gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God’ sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off… She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.