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what does this mean??
i went to a chinese restaraunt today and i got a fortune in my fortune cookie and i dont really know what it means...can you help? t said...
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness
5 Answers
- cw21dlrLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It means it is better to do something (however insignificant it might seem) about a situation than to complain about it.
- MamieLv 71 decade ago
CW21DLR (above) interpreted it correctly. Do you know that Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and herself the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., originally said it -- without the word 'small.'
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it is better to go up a step at a time than to reach 15 metres up. The darkness part is just saying it is dangerous.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it is better to live with little lightness, then to complain about the darkness.
meaning, be glad that you have little, instead of complaining about not having it all
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- 1 decade ago
do a small act of kindness instead of being mean, whether or not your in a good mood.
