Candle Quotes

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Positive Thinking

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Dark, Looks

  As quoted in "7 Laws of Human Nature: The Oneness of Universal Love" by Conrad Spainhower, 2017.

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• Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Heart, Light

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.

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• A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Light, Founding Fathers Democracy, Loses

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• Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Adventure, Torches, World

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

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• At night a candle's brighter than the sun

  Sting

  Night, Sun, Brighter

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Knights, Brave

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• A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

  Hillel the Elder

  Light, Thousand

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• The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

  Robert Bly

  Night, Light, Giving

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• Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.

  Harbhajan Singh

  Lit

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sufi, Ready

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• There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kids, Animal, Darkness

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• To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Life And Love, Light, Given

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• We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positivity, Light

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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

  Confucius

  Light, Darkness, World

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• One idea lights a thousand candles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Ideas, Ideation

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

  Elton John

  Rain, Expression, Wind

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• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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• Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

  Emile Zola

  Blow, Needs, Looks

  Emile Zola (1993). “Germinal”, Oxford University Press, USA

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