Candle Quotes - Page 8

• To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

  Bill Crawford

  Light, Needs, Burning

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• Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Flames, Ideas, Miracle

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

  Damon Knight

  Light, Storm, Lamps

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• 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.

  Thea Bowman

  Inspirational, Change, Thinking

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• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...]
  Candles have long been central to worship.
  By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time.
  Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Life, Time, Book

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• I continue to believe, and Trump has cleverly put fear on the ballot and fear in the eyes of folks, and my parents taught me that if you blow out your neighbor's candle, it doesn't make your candle shine any brighter.

  Thomas Perez

  Believe, Eye, Blow

  Source: www.politico.com

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

  Hafsat Abiola

  Light, Shining, Darkness

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• There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Aromatherapy

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• Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.

  William Morris

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  William Morris (2012). “The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• If you can't hold your own, you're gonna get knocked out. You're bleeding all over the place. There are many, many nights that these boys are crawling off the mats. They drop from body shots, their nose is just bleeding like a faucet. On Wednesday nights, they come in and get a beating. It only happens once with these guys. You'll get karate experts or Tae Kwon Do experts and they can't hold a candle.

  Tim Sylvia

  Boys, Night, Guy

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  Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

  Neil Young

  Fighting, Light, Darkness

  Song: Light a Candle

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• If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Light, News

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stars, Light, Flames

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• You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Women, Firefly

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• 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.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Dream, Reality, People

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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Horse, Children, War

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• I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Home, Kids

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• You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

  Joseph Kanon

  Party, Garden, Light

  Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't give up that quick
  My life is a candle and a wick
  You can put it out, but you can't break it down
  In the end we are waiting to be lit

  Laura Marling

  Giving Up, Waiting, Life Is

  Song: Hope in the Air, Album: I Speak Because I Can, 2010

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• Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Success, Initiative

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

  Robert Moss

  Space, Sacred, Opening

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.14, New World Library

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