Burning Quotes

• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, House, Imagine

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

  Ray Bradbury

  Axes, Years, Circles

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 141), 1953.

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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, Clouds, Air

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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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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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dying, Done, Today

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Fire, Self, Secret

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• If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

  Pema Chodron

  Fire, Talking, Feeding

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Desire, Fuel, Asking

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• As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Fire, Ego, Rope

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

  Paul Cezanne

  Fire

  "Cézanne". Book by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, p. 74., 1984.

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• A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Fire, Hands

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• The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.

  P. K. Page

  Fire, Firsts

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