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  • Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

  • Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

  • This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

    Life   Men   Fire  
    "Fragments (Fragment 30)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

    Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK
  • I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

    Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
  • From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

    Strong   Eye   Fire  
  • Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

  • It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

  • The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

    Love   Life   Knowing  
  • If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

    Men   Fire   Wrath  
  • If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

    Gay   Games   Icons  
    "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.
  • I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria
  • If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

    Blow   Roots   Long  
  • Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

    Heart   Fire   Flames  
  • The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  • If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

    Girl   Gay   Bisexual  
  • You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

    Cheer   Laughter   Home  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

    Stars   Dark   Jewels  
    Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14
  • Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

    Eye   Sparks   Moments  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “The Shuttle: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.263, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

    God   Christian   Truth  
  • About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

    Stars   Years   Curls  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.104, Canongate Books
  • Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?

  • Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin
  • A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some emotional kindling that you didn't even know you had stored. It awakens you to a possibility for the future - be it hope or excitement - that you never knew was possible.

    Song   Emotional   Mind  
  • I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

    Stars   Years   Pieces  
  • There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

    Spiritual   Heart   Soul  
  • Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

    Love   Fuel   Excellent  
  • Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

    Strong   Sleep   Eye  
    'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34
  • Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

    Wall   Book   Smell  
    Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.45, Granta Books
  • The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

    Wisdom   Heart   Eye  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.6
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