Top 31 Quotes On Lighting Candles
#1. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#2. The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
Tim O'Reilly
#3. The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.
Margaret Weis
#4. 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
#5. I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#6. Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
Ori Hofmekler
#7. Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28
Augusten Burroughs
#8. I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
Mary Page Keller
#9. 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
#10. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
Susan Isaacs
#11. I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.
Erica Brown
#12. Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath ... a little winter no spring can melt.
Marge Piercy
#13. A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
Virginia Woolf
#14. But peace isn't determined by circumstances outside us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn't stem from the love we're denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.
Marianne Williamson
#15. I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge ... the blindingly beautiful edge.
Susan Kay
#16. Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
Lee Siegel
#17. Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
Ralph Levy
#18. It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes.
Erin Morgenstern
#19. 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
#20. I hope that one day, my life will be different and richer, too, but from this vantage point, sitting here in this little room, it's so hard to know
Sara Shepard
#21. Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Jane Porter
#22. Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.
Ana Monnar
#24. The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins
#25. God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.
Marian Wright Edelman
#26. There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
Rufus Wainwright
#27. The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
Liam Neeson
#28. We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.
Cristela Alonzo
#29. If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.
Yanan Melo
#30. The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax
Augusten Burroughs
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