If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you _ envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.
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The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.
Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whistled and then dove into my own cupcake, dying to know how my creations tasted. And seeing as I__ done the hard work__rosting and decorating__ felt like I could take credit and call them my creations. All Cassie had done was get the ingredients, come up with the recipe, and do all the measuring and mixing.
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.