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Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind — Eckhart Tolle

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P.G. Wodehouse

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. — Gail Thackray

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. — Lewis Carroll

I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home. — Erin Heatherton

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. — Rumi

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. — William Shakespeare

I wish I were a candle in the darkness. — Mahmoud Darwish

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire. — Peter Gabriel

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

Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head. — Neil Gaiman

Lighting your candle in a darken world ... always helps brighten humanity. — Timothy Pina

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. — James Russell Lowell

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

That's it. It's all going to end.
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle. — Brandon Sanderson

None of it could hold a candle to the shit-yourself-fear evoked by a charging abby. — Blake Crouch

I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon. — Jalaluddin Rumi

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space. — Robert Moss

At night a candle's brighter than the sun — Sting

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

He was wearing a T-shirt that said "Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle." He was my candle, but I was not his. I decided I was okay with that. — Sarah Black

Do you know what that means?" he cried. "It means that God himself may hold a candle to show me your infernal face. — G.K. Chesterton

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. — Boris Pasternak

Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around. — Suman Pokhrel

She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman. — John Fowles

...the shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening that total darkness. — Neil Abramson

His spirit is like a guttering candle — Geraldine Brooks

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle ... then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival. — Dave Attell

I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food! — Carrie Underwood

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. — Confucius

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. — Herb Caen

His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete. — Joseph Roth

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. — Christopher Hitchens

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. — Thomas Jefferson

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle. — Kenny D. Eichenberg

Imagine a pitch-black room with a single candle lit in the center," he said, his voice gone low. "The room is the world. You are the candle. — Kresley Cole

A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You want a torch or a candle, maybe? You've got your head so far up your own arse, it must be dark in there. -Sam — Kady Cross

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it. — Israel Meir Kagan

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. — Leonard Cohen

He was still as an oak trunk, silent as a candle. — Charlie N. Holmberg

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared. — Algernon Blackwood

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. — Alberto Santos-Dumont

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! — Tracey Ullman

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it. — Elton John

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. — Ivan Illich

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing. — Joan Clark

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle,
Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals. — MF Grimm

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine. — William Blake

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle. — G.R. Gopinath

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love. — Jane Hirshfield

Shine like a candle of love to enlighten the world like the moon. — Debasish Mridha

We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us — Jim Morrison

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind. — Julio Ramon Ribeyro

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs. — Shusaku Endo

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Behind me, a teddy bear was resting on the shoulder of a corpse. A lemon candle stood below the branches. The pilot's soul was in my arms. — Markus Zusak

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. — Budha

Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness . — Gaurav Rao

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. — Charles Dickens

Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ... — Robert McCammon

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. — George Carlin

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility. — Debasish Mridha

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends — Josh Stern

A man who is rolling in money do not work for cheeseparings and candle ends. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. — Hugh Latimer

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. — Terry Pratchett

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- Baha

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. — Virginia Woolf

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. — Victoria Aveyard

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face — Joseph Campbell

Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength. — Craig Clevenger

Life is a like lit candle in the night, when it goes off the darkness continues — Bangambiki Habyarimana

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas. — David Ohle

Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive. — Debasish Mridha

Our precious time together feels like a candle with wicks burning at both ends. Once the flame meets in the middle, we're over. — Georgia Cates

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. — Jalaluddin Rumi

A million gripes against the darkness will not make a dent in it. But a little candle will. — Khalid Baig

To light a candle is to cast a shadow — Kate Forsyth

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. — Mitch Hedberg

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness — Seth Czerepak

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle — Michael Faraday

Don't complain about darkness light a candle — Thabiso Monkoe

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. — Hillel The Elder

Whole worlds' darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle.. — Sarvesh Jain

One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle. — James Altucher

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

You are a candle lit by God to light other candles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis Of Assisi