Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"
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Ashes
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Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"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."
David Lee Roth
Musician
"When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's."
Alice Miller
Psychologist, Author
"For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath."
Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn."
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"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."
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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."
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"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."
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"I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers."
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
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"Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Living fire begets cold, impotent ash."
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"Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes."
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"Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes."
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"Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air."
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"I would rather be ashes than dust."
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"She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes."
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must."
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"Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture."
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