A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. — Huineng Copy Share Image
I wish that million of lamps illuminate your life with endless joy, love, prosperity, health, wealth and happiness forever. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein,… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my… — Inge Lehmann Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image