Be the flame, not the moth.
– Giacomo Casanova
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- It is always easy to break one’s word to oneself. – Giacomo Casanova
- There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives. – Giacomo Casanova
- From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. – Giacomo Casanova
- The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. – Giacomo Casanova
- Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. – Giacomo Casanova
- Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name? – Helen Hunt Jackson
- Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. – Anna McPartlin
- In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for. – Alexis Hall
- I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed. – Andrea Zuvich
- Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn’t dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth. – Maggie Shipstead
- Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo. – Margaret Atwood
- 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
- The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. – Paula Poundstone
- Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace – Giacomo Leopardi
- When you travel, there really are no mistakes–just learning opportunities. – Mary Casanova
- When you travel, there really are no mistakes–just learning opportunities. – Mary Casanova
- Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. – Gwendolyn Brooks
- Rekindle the flame within the soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The burning flame is a spirit of light. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- And while she was fire,So fierce and so wild,I could only hope to be for her;The forests and the winds to carry her flame. – Morris R Gates
- Love is the flame that set the heart on fire. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Love is a flame of fire. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The flame of the spirit is burning lamp. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We ????ed a flame into being. – DH Lawrence
- Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams. – Suzy Kassem
- LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable. – HS Rissam
- Individuality is a flame that can start a wildfire in a world of conformity. – Elie Romero
- May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent. – Ariel Sabar
- To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame. – Christina Baker Kline
- A steady flame unwavering & honest – Cassandra Clare
- Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. – Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.) – Charles de Leusse
- The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you. – Brian Staveley
- Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame. – William Faulkner
- Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame. – William Faulkner
- And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. – George Orwell
- Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire. – Charles Bukowski