Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito - Ambrose Bierce
Carry the flame of love and light to everyone you meet. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame - Sam Selvon
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. - Socrates
Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea. - Anthony Liccione
A great flame follows a little spark. - Dante Alighieri
Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame. - Nikki Rowe
At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone. - Helen Simonson
All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. It may be that I wondered over-much. Perhaps that was why I lost her. - J.M. Barrie
I feel frozen holding on to the flame of my own duality.. - Munia Khan
The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace. - H.A. Ironside
Faith is the flame that eliminates fear. - Suzy Kassem
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing. - Joan Clark
Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness. - Nadine C. Keels
Be the flame, not the moth. - Giacomo Casanova
A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise. - José Rizal
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer
The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out. - C.G. Jung
The burning flame is a spirit of light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The flame of the inn is dim tonight,Too many vacant chairs.The sun has lost too much of its light,Too many songs have taken flight,Too many ghosts on the stairs.Charon, here's to you as man against man,I wish I could pick 'em the way you can! - Grantland Rice
You are capable of igniting the flame of light within you. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Or one could say that society is to ridged for the softness of a beautiful soul. Faith has its place, and that can never be taken away, So chin up. Don't let the world conform you or undervalue what and who you are. They can not kill your flame unless you let them. - Brandon Darlington
Creativity is a flame that lights up and ignites the senses - Suzy Davies
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. - Thomas Paine
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? - Roman Payne
A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same - Nonnie Jules
Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame. - G.A. Aiken
When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;The flame shall not hurt thee; I only designThy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. - John Rippon
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
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault. - Henry James
We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,And we do not fear its light,Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,For therein lies our power.-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves - Chris Evans
When that light within begins to dim, fan the flame just enough to spark something! - Sanjo Jendayi
Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction. - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through. - Ada Limon
Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive. - Debasish Mridha
Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light - Munia Khan
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence. - Matshona Dhliwayo
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. - William Shakespeare
If love is a flame, I am an inferno... - Lillian Strange
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. - William Shakespeare
Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we possess the eagle's eye, the eye that can see the invisible. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that'll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God - Amy Carmichael
You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame. - Akilnathan Logeswaran
The burning flame is spirit of light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world. - Walter M. Miller Jr.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. - Albert Schweitzer
Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. - Gwendolyn Brooks
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark. - Dante Alighieri
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll
The universe begins in infinity and move in infinity, your soul is part of the universe you have no end; your soul will always thrive in eternal flame. - Micheline Jean Louis
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? - Helen Hunt Jackson
And while she was fire,So fierce and so wild,I could only hope to be for her;The forests and the winds to carry her flame. - Morris R. Gates
Tonight I've set my body on fireI've burned my fingers On your chest and absAnd as the flame Continued consuming me I blew my air kisses All over youUntil I've heard The explosion. - Veronika Jensen
It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.[Sutra of 42 Sections] - Gautama Buddha
The mightiest flame of fire lies positive mindset. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.) - Charles de Leusse
They say darkness is paramountto see how vivid the stars are,but that isn't true.Every star has a flame within.It just needs the right time for it to burn so brightthat even the darknessshall devour and fade into eternity - dhariyaa
Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS - - Nikki Rowe
The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Just like a candle burns its flame, my heart burns it’s everlasting love for you. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Individuality is a flame that can start a wildfire in a world of conformity. - Elie Romero
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. - Homer
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. - Anthony Liccione
Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, enrapturing both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit. - Sai Marie Johnson
The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits. - William Shakespeare
I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if im lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place. - Nikki Rowe
Mislaid flame of tender emotionsRekindled.Together we live to the point of tears,I wouldn’t want it any other way. - Scott Hastie
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer
Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul. - Virginia Alison
Flame itself is something that produces light via a chemical reaction, its not an opaque object unless its a very sooty flame.May i not have sooth in me Lord. MAY I BE A LIGHT WHEREVER I BE - Mary Tornyenyor
A few years ago I started an online flirtation with a high school flame, Andy. Things got weird and I called it off and two months later...Versace was dead...dead. - Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. - Izumi Shikibu
brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on. - Sylvia Plath
All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside. - Anthony Liccione
...Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the lovingI could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But let it be infinite while it lasts. - Vinicius de Moraes
To fight our fear each day is to live with the perpetual flame to conquer it. - Lisa Fantino "Shrouded in Pompei"
The light within is a fire, whose flame does not burn, but brings warmth; and whose rays do not blind, but illuminate. Once kindled, it blazes a trail and lights our way. - Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame - Charles Caleb Colton
A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted. - Hema Aushat