#fire

Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute. Remember a searing look of intimate eyes. Receive the inner fire. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fire #heat #ice #intimacy #memory

In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we’re headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we’re lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we’re truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top. ↗

— Joanne Crisner

#firefly #inspirational #loss #lost #inspirational

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter. ↗

— Paul Sloane

#fire #innovation #innovative #leader #inspirational

I hate... I hate when you die. It destroys me. I know i have no right to be so upset, because I'm not the one losing my life, but it breaks me apart inside. I'm not very good with words, and i dont know how to explain to you how i feel. I get lonely when you aren't with me. I miss you. And every time you die, a little piece of me dies with you. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#love #will #life

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

#once-in-a-lifetime #life

If her ememies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemie's, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#life #thought #life

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#education #fire #suppression #education

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#sansa #the-hound #life

What do you think?" he asks. "I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?" "I see them every night," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive. It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it. ↗

— John Stephens

#pain #sacrifice #the-fire-chronicle #life