Francois Mauriac Quotes

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Everyone on this planet has spirit within them as an all powerful force for good.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to him for help and I'm excited to share that.

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

There's no room for him in your head, Elle. I'm there. I'll always be there and if he tries to come in I'll drive him out until you're strong enough to do it yourself. And there was never room for him in your heart because I was already there. He couldn't touch your soul. It belongs to you and no one else unless you decide to share.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

Okay. Enough." I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. "This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay." She narrowed her eyes at me. "When did you suddenly become so positive?" "Just get out of there.

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light