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Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.
Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.
Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.
In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?