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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Pain, Find, Joy

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

Life, Men, Live

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain

Remember, Away, Fade

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Age, Trust, Best

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins

Life, Beauty, Loneliness

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Reading, Stop, Culture

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

Work, Focus, Thoughts

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Future, Stupid, Strong

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya

Family, Single, Son

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
Bill Hicks

Good, Done, Records

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead

Love, Energy, Prayer

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

After, Might, Worse

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz

Down, House, Neighbors

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford

Love, Fire, Down

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Fire, Put

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan

Down, Country, Spring

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Fire, Put

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

Away, Throw, Wrote

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
Vivien Leigh

Themselves, Eat

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine

End, Human, Books

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Prince William

Time, Amazing, Help

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart

Good, Home, Away

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Doug Coupland

Feeling, Year, Knowing

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Athenaeus

Trust, Best, Friends

If you love god, burn a church.
Jello Biafra

Love, God, Church

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

Eyes, Moment, While

Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young

I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
Cliff Burton

Bored, Getting, Fast

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