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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

When the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch

From now on I will make burning my aim, For I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter. — Jalaluddin Rumi

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. — Jose Bergamin

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 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

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light. — Shaun Hick

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

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. — Tennessee Williams

The game's not worth the candle — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade. — George Eliot

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all. — Ethan Nichtern

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

It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine. — Hafsat Abiola

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

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness. — Nasir-i Khusraw

So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. — Robert Alden

I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind. — Wendell Berry

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

Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake. — Josh Lanyon

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

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

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

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for? — Jane Haddam

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it. — Edith Warton 18621937

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

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness — Mehmet Murat Ildan

single candle. He slides the jack under — Anthony Doerr

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. — Saib Tabrizi

Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other. — Markus Zusak

The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds. — Roger Stark

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. — Edmond Jabes

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness. — R. YS Perez

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

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

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

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

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out. — Matthew Henry

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

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop. — Anthony Jeselnik

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

The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us? — Orrin Woodward

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

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

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

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

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity. — Frederick Lenz

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement. — William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

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

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle. — Wes Fesler

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. — Confucius

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

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R R Martin

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

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. — Dean Inge

Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind. — Debasish Mridha

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle. Why — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. — Fannie Flagg

Love is the flame that set the heart on fire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore

8 went down and didn't rise. The Bastard's candle had been snuffed. BleakWarrior, — Alistair Rennie

There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. — Gautama Buddha

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

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

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

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' — Steven Wright

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

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

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere. — Normandi Ellis

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