"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

11/28/18

Quotes on FIRE, FLAME and PASSION


"A spark neglected makes a mighty fire." ~Robert Herrick

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” ~Jennifer Lee

“Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.” ~Paolo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

 “Catch on fire if you must, sometimes everything needs to burn to the ground so that we may grow.” ~A. J. Lawless

"Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire." ~Rumi

"Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together." ~Proverb

"Fire moves a soul, ignites a desire, fuses enthusiasm, and burns the spirit to illumine the world!" ~Leah C. Dancel, March 15, 2022

"Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy." ~Proverb

"Genius is initiative on fire." ~Holbrook Jackson

"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal." ~Rumi

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters." ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692 QG

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow." ~Helen Keller

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." ~Buddha

"Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out." ~Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr. lifted from Iwa Mahor

"One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet." ~Odell Shepard

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ~Rumi

"Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves." ~Italian Proverb

"The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame: The first one went closer and said, 'I know about love'. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said, 'I know how love's fire can burn'. The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed. He alone knows what true love is." ~Attar of Nishapur

"Temper us in fire and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive." ~Cassandra Clare

"The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.  It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The fire of hope almost went out; we have to rekindle it." ~Chief Red Cloud 1822-1909

"The fire used to melt an iron is the same fire used to shape a sword." ~Paulo Coelho

"The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant." ~Sataka

"The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire." ~Leigh Hunt

“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.” ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire

"We see the mind like a house, so if your house is on fire, you need to take care of the fire, not to go look for the person that made the fire. Take care of those emotions first; it’s the priority. Because anything that comes from a place of fear and anxiety and anger will only make the fire worse. Come back and find a place of calm and peace to cool the flame of emotion down." ~Phap Dung, Buddhist Monk

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” ~Charles Bukowski

"Winter can be a time for reflection as we sit in front of a crackling fire." ~from Dr. Anthony Chan Acupuncture

"You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm." ~Deborah King

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FLAME

"I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze..."  ~ Helen Hunt Jackson

"Love is like a small ember that sparks and grow into flame. Do you have to douse it when it is raging inside one's heart?" ~Napoleon Torres 


"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame." ~Henry David Thoreau 

“May the flames of love from the heart of mankind, engulf and extinguish the hatred and prejudice of many people on earth and set their hearts on fire with love and kindness to their neighbours, that will please God to bring peace to our chaotic world.” ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness." ~Rumi

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PASSION

"Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, REMEMBER NEVER TO TRUST TO HIM where that passion is concerned." ~Lord Chesterfield

"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save endangered indicator species: the child in nature." ~Richard Louv (from Dance with me in the Heart)

"People are most beautiful when they talk about something they really love, with passion in their eyes." ~Anon

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining;  and passion, unattended, is
a flame that burns to its own destruction.” ~Khalil Gibran

VERSE

"The fire in our heart glows
The earth in our bones grows
The air in our lungs blows
The water in our veins flows
The Spirit in our mind knows"
~Chris Hild

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