If you have knowledge let others light their candles in it.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
I was brought up in a very open rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so my imagination was crazy.
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
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.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles which are expensive.