“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ If you're bored with life — you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don't have enough goals. ”
- Lou Holtz- Copy
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“ Opinionated writing is always the most difficult… simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. ”
- Gavin Lyall- Copy
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“ Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power — a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ”
- John Berry- Copy
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“ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ”
- Reggie Leach- Copy
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“ To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. ”
- Emma Lazarus- Copy
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“ While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend for Ioday found a friend. ”
- Helen Barker Parker- Copy
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“ I cannot weep; for all my body's moistureScarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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