Flames Quotes - Page 39

• Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Essence, Rose

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

  Ryan Leonard

  Fire, Light, World

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• The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

  Sara Teasdale

  Reading, Thinking, Giving

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

  Rebecca West

  Age, Grass, Terrible

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Together, Sacred, Spirit

  Margaret Fuller (1994). “The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1850 and undated”

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• The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.104

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Fire, Shooting Up

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Light, Intelligence

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Friendship, Wind, Sublime

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
  A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
  Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
  Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
  And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
  Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.

  Bayard Taylor

  Rain, Rocks, Purple

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• It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Drama, Fans

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• True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

  Horace Mann

  Sky, Glory

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• Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Buddhist, Night, Mystical Experiences

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• A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

  Margaret Deland

  Positive, May, Scar

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.230, The Floating Press

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Ideas, Torches, Noble

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

  David Hume

  Men, Vanity, May

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• Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blood, Doe, Veins

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.295, Indiana University Press

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• For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Men, Soul, Doe

  Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”

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• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Wild Life

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

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• Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Jealousy, Fire, Ashes

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Soul, Dying

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Fire

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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