#candles

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#inexperience #krakauer #mccandless #naivete #youth

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#candles #difference #even #furniture #make

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. ↗

— Tim Vine

#candles #couple #know #now #out

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ↗

— Bob Hope

#cake #candles #cost #getting #getting old

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. ↗

— Buddha

#being #candle #candles #decreases #happiness

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. ↗

— Joan Collins

#cushions #dressing #dressing room #even #i

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

— Margaret Fuller

#knowledge #light #others #their #you

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #candles #earth #going #i

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church