A Quote by Jimmy Buffett

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Another Candle Flickering Illuminate Life Maybe Sees Torch Undiscovered World

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Jimmy Buffett
American - Singer
Born: December 25, 1946

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

George Bernard Shaw

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

Ted Dekker

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

Catriona Gray

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

David Wong

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Edward Dunlop

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...] Candles have long been central to worship. By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time. Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.

Gunilla Brodde Norris

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

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Charles R. Swindoll

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.