Anzia Yezierska Quotes

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

There's a fire starting in my heart

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

From the moment that you feel enthusiastic about everything, you know that you are following your heart.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.