Fire Quotes - Page 8

• A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

  Francois Rabelais

  Children, Vases, Youth

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love, Iron, Hot

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: (to II Corinthians, Chapter V)”

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• Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Freedom, Mean, Technology

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• The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Want, Obstacles

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe.
  The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Stars, Heart, Moon

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• By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

  Thomas Merton

  Music, Reading, Blue

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• You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Believe, Adventure

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• Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sitting Still, One Day, Maleficent

  Angelina Jolie's speech at the Kids' Choice Awards, time.com. March 29, 2015.

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicide

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Voice, Ashes

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• The burnt child dreads the fire.

  Ben Jonson

  Children, Dread

  Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.69, Manchester University Press

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• Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

  George Herbert

  Smell, May, Wells

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• A crooked log makes a strait fire.

  George Herbert

  Crooked

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• Flame is very near to smoke.

  Plautus

  Flames, Smoke

  "Curculio". Act I, 1, 53,

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• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

  Ovid

  Men, May, Meanness

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Data Collection, Cyberspace

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• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading Poetry, Body

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  Francis Bacon

  May, Fame, Kindles

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.627

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• I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Done, Belly

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• This is no place for a girl on fire.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Catching On, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.263, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Punishment, House

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Oh god
  Let all lovers be content
  Give them happy endings
  Let their lives be celebrations
  Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Giving

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• I arise today
  Through the strength of heaven:
  Light of sun
  Brilliance of moon
  Splendor of fire
  Speed of lightning
  Swiftness of wind
  Depth of sea
  Stability of earth
  Firmness of rock.

  Saint Patrick

  Nature, Moon, Light

  "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.

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