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Quoted in The Grove: fire
What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?
~Kristin Hannah
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.
~Laura Esquivel
Fire is the most tolerable third party.
~Henry David Thoreau
EndQuote:
It takes two flints to make a fire.
~Louisa May Alcott
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Exercise Prompt for 09/27: design
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
~Stephen Hawking
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself, fire doesn’t burn itself, light doesn’t illuminate itself. It’s always an endless mystery to itself.
~Alan Watts
The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.
~Leigh Hunt
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Posted from the Grove
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
~Author unknown
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.
~Edward F Croker
Firefighters – your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.
~Author Unknown
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~Susan Diane Murphree
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
~John 15:13 (The Bible)
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
~William Feather
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~Author unknown
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People on Fire:
~Robert Kiyosaki 2019: The Entrepreneur (10:26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azq0S0DKS50
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~Denzel Washington: Life Advice (10:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FB9i7P9Zs4
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~Father Gregory Boyle: Taking inspiration from gangsters (6:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk–XN4ozr8
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~Neil Gaiman: Master Class, Writing Advice (5:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0_FinB6EE
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~New York Times: The Almeda Fire — home town ablaze https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007341513/oregon-fires-path.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
~Oscar Wilde
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
~Richard M Nixon
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
~Martha Graham
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
~Elisabeth Elliot
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
~Edward Young
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can’t turn back the days that have gone. We can’t turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire–a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron–which we cannot get back.
~Thomas Wolfe
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~Delmore Schwartz
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VIDEO:
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
~Paul Auster
One fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.
~William Shakespeare
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
~Bill Maher
When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
~Dylan Thomas
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~Omeleto: Exit Strategy (15:09) vying against fate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68f27rqP_NY
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~The Office: Fire Drill (4:56) pandemonium (not pandemic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8N3L_aERg
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The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
~Pierre Corneille
This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.
~Libba Bray
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
~Honore de Balzac
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
~Henry Van Dyke
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
~John Foster
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
~Joan Miro
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MUSIC:
Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
~William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~William Shakespeare
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
~Mark Twain
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I’m sick and tired of life with no desire.
I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.
~Matthew West
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
~Frederick Douglass
Man needs color to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.
~Fernand Leger
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
~Pamela Hansford Johnson
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~Sam Smith: Fire On Fire (2:00) dancing: Michael Dameski & Maddie Ziegler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZsAgpBC5lI
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~Katy Perry: Firework (3:53) Beauty and The Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw
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~Adele: Set Fire To The Rain (3:58) Cupid, non-traditional arsonist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9bB8csLSug
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The Roop: On Fire (3:01) Euro showcasing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAUxuuu1w8
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~Bruce Springsteen: I’m On Fire (3:30) Bruce sprucing up an auto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
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~Ed Sheeran: I See Fire (4:54) Frodo adventuring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fngvQS_PmQ
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~Kiss: Heaven’s On Fire (3:12) kissing without makeup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjevnnkA20
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~Beth Ditto: Fire (3:20) rubenesque cowboyin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPbiklLnDQo
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~James Taylor: Fire and Rain – Sarah Class cover (4:03) in memory of… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZX9H9clzxs
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It’s easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.
~Cynthia Lewis
Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.
~Yvonne Prinz
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While I was looking the other way your fire went out
Left me with cinders to kick into dust
What a waste of the wonder you were
In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine
In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine
At the disgrace of a waste of a life.
~Kristin Cashore
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
~Jeph Jacques
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~Joan Crawford
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
~Susanne Katherina Langer
Fires all go out eventually.
~Author Unknown
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If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that’s what really throws you into a panic.
~Jack Handey
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
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn’t deter her.
~Loni Anderson
Don’t fling your butt beside the trail and we won’t fling your butt in jail.
~Author Unknown
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
~Tommy Cooper
I’m glad I don’t have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
~Abbie Hoffman
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~photographer unknown~
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.
~Proverb
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~George Washington
In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
~Dwight D Eisenhower
To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
~Bertolt Brecht
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
~e e cummings
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~George Washington
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@Writers Platform
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
~Vincent Van Gogh
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
~Maria Callas
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
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
~Rumi
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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.
~Rumi
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Exercise Prompt: fire
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
~Plutarch
To learn to read is to light a fire.
~Victor Hugo
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
~Emily Dickinson
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
~William Lloyd Garrison
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
~Samuel Johnson
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
The Becoming
Love, innocent as a match
A baby flame crawling to its kindling
A campfire blossoming into conflagration
New found, friend sun begun a stranger
Crossing the interstitial to interstellar
Versing the curve, the void what apart meant
Yearning, another star joins the love-of-night sky
Junior gods of the galaxy, a host of angels
Celestial cities of uncurtained apartments
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Book of Life
Some know for a certainty forgetting their history
Forgetting their bibles’ auguries and mysteries
Forgetting they’re liable, unimpeachable memory
Where: To whip is to feel the lash of that whip
Where: To spit is to wear the drip of that spit
Where: Becoming One means to be integrated
Where: Love means together and not separated
Challenged by injunction to love amid strife
Golden Rule bends to karma, the measure of life
The sentencing fair, the wound self-inflicted
Consequences are mirrored, self-directed, reflected
Enduring the outcomes their deeds once inspired
Injured jury empaneled, the evidence required
In the pooled memory of men a hot lake of fire
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The Job of Being Job
Hired at birth to work at stress and strife
Earn someone’s love and bed a wife
Schooled and trained to seek love’s relief
Follow with hurtful words that end in grief
There’s worse to come when unworthy of
Their priceless time, their precious love
Is to fail the charge assigned at birth
Not retired but fired and not be worth
No love, no hope, no mourning friend
A failed, forgotten, and biblical end
When cashing out and leaving earth
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5-7-5-7-7 x 2
wood shavings like words
gathered sticks for a sentence
logs framed for a home
gave us the law, schools and books
fuel for fire and history
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fired up politics
honesty or loyalty
fired for decency
laughable integrity
Vote For Lies over country
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5-7-5-7-7 5-7-5
outlived usefulness
the document that mattered
used for a doormat
Constitution a hindrance
divide and conquer the rule
yet evil will die
living fires of history
will burn off the lies
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