A Quote by Giovanni Ruffini

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

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Giovanni Ruffini
Italian - Poet
September 20, 1807 - November 3, 1881

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.

Frederick Lenz

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Thomas Jefferson

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Bruce Lee

As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

James Keller

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

Roger Waters

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Charles Spurgeon

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Lewis Carroll

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

N. T. Wright

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

Laura Esquivel

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.