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• I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.

  Alice O. Howell

  Glasses, Light, Agony

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• ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

  Pat Conroy

  Break Off, Rivers, Snow

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• Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Love, Fire, Humanity

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• Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

  Lech Walesa

  Fire, Voice, Want

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• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Psychics, Crow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Desire, Belief

  "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity".

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• I said: what about my eyes?
  God said: Keep them on the road.
  I said: what about my passion?
  God said: Keep it burning.
  I said: what about my heart?
  God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
  I said: pain and sorrow?
  He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Pain, Eye, Passion

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• Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, People, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.128, Penguin

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

  Taylor Swift

  Memories, Mind, Red

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Depth

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• Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dinner, Painting, Destroying

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• I am not like
  other people.
  I am
  burning in hell. The hell of
  myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Hell, Burning In Hell

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “New Poems Book Two”, p.117, Random House

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• Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Empty, Burning Heart

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• True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Passion, Desire, Energy

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 28, 2012

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• You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

  Jim Ross

  Beautiful, Wwe, Two

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• Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Real, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arbitration, May, Diplomats

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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• The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Fall, Long, Miracle

  Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

  Billy Graham

  Bridges, Behind You, Christ

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