Quotes About Inner Fire

#1. Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.

Sri Chinmoy

#2. Foomp! My inner fire ignites.

Stephanie Perkins

#3. When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Jeanne Moreau

#4. 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

#5. The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Edith Sodergran

#6. Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Van Jones

#7. True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Emil Cioran

#8. Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.

Leon Brown

#9. And you thought beauty was the outward show - but now you know the truth, my Love - it's always been the inner fire ...

John Geddes

#10. But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

Dean Koontz

#11. It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. I want to rekindle the inner fire that is burning in you. I want it to come out to take away the darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Deep and intense, his eyes shone with an inner fire that burned so clearly, Ella was tempted to reach for a skewer and a marshmallow.

Anonymous

#14. But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire ... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

Phil Cousineau

#15. Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.

Philip K. Dick

#16. A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

Kenneth Clark

#17. So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

#18. My inner Jiminy was screaming at me to stop playing with fire again, but I was a moth drawn to a flaming hot drummer.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#19. Inside me there is a fire stocking
I burn with passion
Whilst people only see a whiff of smoke
I am told by an inner voice
The human spirit on fire is the most unrelenting force in the deafening silence of the universe.

Gabriel Iqbal

#20. Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

Norman Douglas

#21. Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak ... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

Hermann Hesse

#22. The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Marcus Aurelius

#23. The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

James Altucher

#24. Motivation is like fire - unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.

Shiv Khera

#25. Fire is His head, the sun and moon His eyes, space His ears, the Vedas His speech, the wind His breath, the universe His heart. From His feet the Earth has originated. Verily, He is the inner self of all beings.

Anonymous

#26. I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered
about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

Willa Cather

#27. By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Walter Russell

#28. The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire

Hermann Hesse

#29. All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

Emile M. Cioran

#30. A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#31. When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

Tania Silva

#32. God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.

C. John Miller

#33. Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives ... but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.

Bradley Trevor Greive

#34. Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.

Alexandra Katehakis

#35. When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.

James Scott Bell

#36. Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Wilferd Peterson

#37. Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

Rajneesh

#38. As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda