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you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Friedrich Nietzsche
You must be prepared to consume yourself in the blaze of your own fire; how can you be reborn if you have not first been reduced to dust?
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Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
Bhagat Singh
Every atom of Ash is vibrating with my ardour I am such an Unconventional Thinker that I am liberated even in Prison.
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People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Folks climb from the ruins as, eventually, they are endowed with a conviction in the likelihood of victory despite seemingly insurmountable impediments.
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In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
India.Arie
In a world of despair and destruction, you are solace and sweetness.
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
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ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end
Roger Waters
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I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.
Mike Pence
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In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
Thomas Cranmer
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For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
Alice Miller
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My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
Daisy Ashford
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For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
Tommy Chong
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia Butler
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.
Tracy Pollan
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor
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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
Elisabeth Elliot
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When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but Godâs. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'
Mark Hart
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashesâŠ. I burnt my fingers.
Antonio Machado
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Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.
Ming-Dao Deng
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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle
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Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
Frank McCourt
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells
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Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
Gustav Mahler
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We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.
Jean Jaures
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I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida
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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
William Shatner
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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
Miriam Toews
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My paintings are only the ashes of my art
Yves Klein
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Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.
Thomas Merton
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Rumi
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why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?
David Levithan
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Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
Thomas Merton
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I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.
Marilyn Manson
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And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
Khalil Gibran
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Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
John Perry Barlow
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
Annie Dillard
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I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.
Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
Karen Kingsbury
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We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
Bob Hope
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Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
Joan of Arc