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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Dust, Flames

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• I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

  John Updike

  Heart, Fire, Television

  "Roger's Version". Book by John Updike, 1986.

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• I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

  William Styron

  Men, Fire, Slavery

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.397, Random House

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• How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

  Paul Gauguin

  Fire, Light, Ashes

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

  Claude Monet

  Fire, Plans

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

  Lee Haney

  Food, Bodybuilding, Done

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• I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny, Humorous, Political

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• laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

  Jessica Simpson

  Funny, Laughter, Weight Loss

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• Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

  Max Brooks

  Lying, Fire, Deceit

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Healing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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• Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

  Mark Twain

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

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• We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Heart, Cities, History

  Interview with Pierre van Paassen, The Toronto Daily Star, July 24, 1936.

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• Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

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• Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

  Leyla Zana

  Kindness, Fire, Metaphor

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• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  Catherine Booth

  God, Hope, Real

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• When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Heart, Literature

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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