Flames Quotes - Page 7

• You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Cities, House, London

  Archibald MacLeish, William Samuel Paley, Edward R. Murrow (1941). “In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom”

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• The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Inspirational, Glasses, Needs

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Eye, Light

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• Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Blow, Wind

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• Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Christian, Confused

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• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
  Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River
  “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Rivers, People, Alive

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• Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Forever, Heaven

  Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282

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• Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Believe, Journey, Forever

  "“Lord, I Believe”". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

  Suzy Kassem

  Fear And Faith

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, December 12, 2010.

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• More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be.

  Aaron Bruno

  Opportunity, Waiting, Records

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• Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.

  Richard Siken

  Dragons, Love Always

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Light, Order, Giving

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• Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Light, Giving

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• But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

  Karen Maitland

  Fire, Burning, Painful

  Karen Maitland (2009). “Company of Liars”, p.84, Penguin UK

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• Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

  Andrew Davidson

  Crucible, Hot, World

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Ashes, Firsts

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• Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you, when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

  Isaiah

  Angel, Fire, Names

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• Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
  For love sincere refines upon the taste.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Taste, Waste

  Joseph Addison, Robert Jephson, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Colley Cibber (1815). “Cato. A Tragedy”

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• You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Light, Giving, Saint

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• Time takes life away
  and gives us memory, gold with flame,
  black with embers.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Memories, Giving, Black

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• If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

  Helen Keller

  Soul, Eternity, Immortality

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.27, Book Tree

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• Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2353, Delphi Classics

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

  Bhartrhari

  Men, Torches, May

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