Feb 1, 2015
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
Francis Bacon
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
Francis Bacon
“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
Dylan Thomas
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
“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
“All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.”
Gautama Siddhartha
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. Like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart