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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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• Regard this fleeting world like this:
  Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
  like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
  like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
  like a candle flickering in a strong wind...
  echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
  and like a dream.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Strong, Morning

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• At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.291, Penguin

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• Man's best candle is his understanding.

  James Howell

  Men, Understanding

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• I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Boys

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• If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet

  Lee Donghae

  Girl, One Day, Red

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• 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.

  Amy Bloom

  Sex, Mind, Burning

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• When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rooms, Happy Person, Lit

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• Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

  Leo Tolstoy

  Loving Life, Men, Lasts

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

  Edgar Berman

  Cancer, Heart, Dark

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• Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

  O. Henry

  Men, Flames, Cities

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1513, Delphi Classics

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• Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

  Sanai

  Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

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• Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

  Mark Batterson

  Darkness, Complaining, Needs

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• For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Magic, Shadow, World

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.24, Branden Books

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• It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Poor

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Light, Age

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flames

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• You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Flames, Use

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

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• To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Dark

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Skills, Ideas

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Halloween, Distance, Dark

  Song: All Souls Night

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