#lamp

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#confidence #lamp #community

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. ↗

— William Tyndale

#alone #also #ask #dark #evening

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#burns #court #dark #fragrant #green

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

#burning #ever #lamps #wisdom

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. ↗

— Rebecca West

#bear #best #cutting #dark #dark places

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beginning #consciousness #end #envelope #gig

Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#comfort #embrace #hold #lamp #me

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#blows #lamp #mind #out #which