I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. — Mia Hamm
Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night — Yosa Buson
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. — Terry Pratchett
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. — Rumi
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 tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally. — William Booth
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. — Rumi
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. — Lucy Larcom
A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns. — Irish Proverbs
It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out. — Cynthia Lewis
Even if the firewood is green, it will burn when lit. — Filipino Proverbs
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight. — African Proverbs
Even a log soaked in water will burn if it is placed near a fire. — Filipino Proverbs
While one man’s beard was burning, another was lighting a cigarette — Greek Proverbs
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. — Horace Traubel
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi
Lighting A Fire Image Quotes
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
Build A Fire Quotes
I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath. — David Brainerd
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. — Loretta Lynn
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. — Dwight L. Moody
Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team. — Rocky Bridges
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring — Edward Abbey
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed. — Carl Andre
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire. — Nicholas D. Kristof
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. — Charles Krauthammer
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. — Christopher Alexander
Campfire Quotes
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? — Rudyard Kipling
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. — Ernest Hemingway
when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans — Tom Waits
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. — Laurie Anderson
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. — Stephen King
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire. — Carolyn Hart
Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago. — John Daly
Catching Fire Quotes
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. — E. E. cummings
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans. — Suzanne Collins
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins
You have to find what a sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever. — Suzanne Collins
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. — Plato
Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you... Fear is a friend of exceptional people... You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. — Cus D'Amato
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. — Saint Augustine
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. — Vladimir Nabokov
It's a world where I take 10 grand and light it on fire and make 20 grand. — MrBeast
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. — Russell Kirk
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight! — Carson Mccullers
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. — Elizabeth Kim
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. — Teju Cole
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself. — Martin Heidegger
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. — Stephen Covey
Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. — Sayings
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man. — Wilferd Peterson
A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him. — Anthony Mary Claret
Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota. — Denzel Washington
You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul. — Harold B. Lee
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire. — Bobby Flay
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. — Marshall McLuhan
behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. — Paulo Coelho
Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond. — Rumi
When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend. — Brian Jacques
People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire. — Kim Woo-jung
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. — Steve Jobs
Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale. — Rumi
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? — Isaac Newton
You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love — St. Catherine of Siena
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. — Hannah More
I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home. — Evangeline Lilly
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold. — Albert Claude
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. — Lord Byron
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light. — Ameen Rihani
When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong! — Picabo Street
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner. — Osho
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him. — Bill Walsh
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride
To learn to read is to light a fire. — Victor Hugo
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country. — Noam Chomsky
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