Fire

I feel again
a spark of that ancient flame.
-Virgil

Every fire and light has its source.
-Deng Ming-Dao

Fire is an element which is active
at the center of each thing.
-Philippe Hecquet

Fire is a good companion for the mind.
-May Sarton

Fire is nothing but pure substance -
or the third dimension -
breaking through corporality.
-Friedrich von Schelling

If a fire is to warm something else,
must there be a fire to warm that fire?
-Plotinus

Through fire everything changes.
When we want everything to be changed we call on fire.
-Gaston Bachelard

In one and the same fire,
clay grows hard and wax melts.
-Francis Bacon

If all that changes slowly may be explained by life,
all that changes quickly is explained by fire.
-Gaston Bachelard

A mighty flame followeth a little spark.
-Dante Alighieri

This spark will prove a raging fire,
if wind and fuel be brought to feed with it.
-William Shakespeare

Fire has a love for itself -
It wants to keep burning.
-Daniel Ladinsky

When fire is involved,
there are always results.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Fire brings change wherever it goes.
-John Sandbach

Fire is the best of servants;
but what a master!
-Thomas Carlyle

The fire which enlightens
is the same fire which consumes.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

The fire that warms us
can also consume us.
It is the not the fault of the fire.
-Vivekananda

Fire destroys that which feeds it.
-Simone Weil

The fire of war destroys.
The fire of love restores.
-Kenneth G. Mills

We live, only suspire,
consumed by either fire or fire.
-T. S. Eliot

Fire gives birth to ashes.
-Tanzanian Proverb

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion,
though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
-Susanne Langer

Fire cannot hurt another fire;
It cannot destroy what it of the same nature as itself.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

When fire and water are at war,
it is the fire that loses.
-Spanish Proverb

Fire that's kept closest
burns most of all.
-William Shakespeare

I will be a bonfire
and dare the world to put me out.
-Laurence G. Boldt

I am all fire within;
fire serves as my food,
and it is my life.
-Philippe Hecquet

You must know that the fire which you are seeking
Is the fire of your own lantern.
-Zen Saying

From half past ten in the evening
to half past twelve.
FIRE.
-Blaise Pascal

There is no pain or passion
that does not radiate to the ends of the earth.
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity
and he will set fire to the world.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The most powerful weapon on earth
is the human soul on fire.
-Ferdinand Foch

Standing up in a flame and telling aloud
That it is fire and no more a shape.
-Lascelles Abercrombie

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
-Charles Bukowski

Alone the wise
Can walk through fire with unblinking eyes.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The eternal flame is devoid of fire,
And is met within thyself.
-Keshodas

The flame is a world for the solitary man.
-Gaston Bachelard

In the name of the Fire,
The Flame
And the Light;
Praise the pure presence of fire
That burns from within
Without thought of time.
-John O'Donohue

To burn always with this hard gem-like flame,
to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
-Walter Pater
 
If the world seems cold to you,
kindle fires tto warm it.
-Lucy Larcom

He who has no inner fire cannot warm others.
-Sir Richard Burton

The fire that I create must heat and not burn:
it must draw into its warmth the man who needs its heat.
-Alice Bailey

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-Unknown

The fire does not cry out, 'I am burning!'
The heat of the glow is felt without words.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan