Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.
For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.
Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.
There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way. ) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process. . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
