Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

— Douglas MacArthur

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

— William Hazlitt

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

— Margaret Atwood

“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I…

— Suzanne Curchod

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,…

— Hannah More

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy…

— Francis of Assisi

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that…

— Maria Popova

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go…

— Rabindranath Tagore