Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein and, as he read, he wept, and trembled and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do.
And they lighted a torch of hope and intuition
And desire which the Shadow,
Leading me swiftly through the caverns of darkness,
Could not extinguish.
Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted.
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes Were kindled in the upper skies At the same torch that lighted mine.
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories