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In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
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Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2))
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In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
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Octavia E. Butler
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she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
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Jodi Picoult (My Sisterβs Keeper)
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A phoenix rises from the ashes for a reason. Your world must be destroyed for you to rise anew. And rise you shall. Just as they feared you would.
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Kerri Maniscalco (Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2))
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My longtime broken heart was breaking again, shattering, falling to pieces and disintegrating. And in its place was a brand new heart. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
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Madeline Sheehan (Unattainable (Undeniable, #3))
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And you,β Ty continued, his voice breaking. βYouβre a
phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make
you burn.β
Zaneβs throat was too tight to swallow past, and his next
breath came out a choked sob. He had never imagined that
was how Ty saw him, and hearing it now made him want to
take back every harsh word theyβd ever shared, every thrust
and parry of their relationship.
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Abigail Roux (Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run, #7))
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He'd seen a phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes, and he still did. every time he looked into Zane, he saw something extraordinary.
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Abigail Roux (Armed & Dangerous (Cut & Run, #5))
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Breathe in, breathe out. Without the fire, the phoenix never rises from the ashes. Let the fire scorch the skin and burn the soul, allowing yourself to absorb the pain and understand the sincerity of the pain. Breathe in, you are not the past, you are not the future; breathe out, you are simply each breath, the present moment. As you breathe in and breathe out, acknowledge all the trials you have overcome thus far, and that you can continue to overcome all else without doubt. Breathe in, breathe out.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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Yes,
You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.
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Kalen Dion
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I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.
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Kaitlin (Katlin) D.S. Cammie
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Because at the end of the day, we are all just phoenixes, rising from our own ashes, taking flight to an unknown destination, our wingtips forged by flames.
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L.J. Shen (Playing with Fire)
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1))
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Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.
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Shannon Perry (Ad Eundum Quo Nemo Ante iit:: A Carmina Collectio)
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Youβre a phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make you burn.
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Abigail Roux (Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run, #7))
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Dark night, bright future
Like theΒ phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again
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Dolly Parton (Run, Rose, Run)
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I unbuttoned my white shirt and reknotted it under by breasts. I felt like one of those circus 'quick change' acts β ta-dah, no more Wimpy Wendy, now we have Slinky Phee rising from the ashes.
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Joss Stirling (Stealing Phoenix (Benedicts, #2))
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Rise and rise again and again
like The Phoenix from the ashes;
until the lambs have become lions.
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Maitreya
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Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you'll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret.
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Nanette Mathews
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I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.
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Kaitlin DS Cammie
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Iβve always known what you need. Someone to rage at whoβs strong enough to take all the pain and fury you have to dish out until youβve burned it out of your system and nothing is left but a pile of ashes from which the Phoenix rises. Kid, woman, whatever the hell you areβI want to see you rise. Even if you have to hate me.
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Karen Marie Moning (Feversong (Fever, #9))
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A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes...malevolent...omnipotent...The Phantom of the Opera!
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Susan Kay (Phantom)
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In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina
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Octavia E. Butler
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It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.
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C. JoyBell C.
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He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.
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Nenia Campbell (Black Beast (Shadow Thane, #1))
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I want to drink you until thereβs nothing left. I want you to magically rematerialize so I can do it again. I want a phoenix that will rise from the ashes just so I can keep burning her. I thought I knew madness, but I didnβt know it before you.
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Kitty Thomas (Big Sky)
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For all those who believed me,
and for all those who didn't.
It can't be easy hearing
things that you shouldn't.
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Icarus X. (Phoenix: My Attempt to Rise from the Ashes of Childhood Abuse)
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Darling, youre not falling apart. Youre getting rid of the pieces that no longer serve your purpose, this is a surgery of the spirit, and it can be painful as hell.
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Kalen Dion
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We need to rise up from the ashes of this carnage like a Phoenix being reborn and to do so, we need a new leader to guide the people into the light.
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Caroline Peckham (Warrior Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #5))
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Phoenixβs are supposed to rise from the ashesβ¦ But this one wants to burn.
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Ashley Jade (The Words)
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On your way to greatness, you will fall, but like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, you too shall rise again.
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Michael Bassey Johnson (Night of a Thousand Thoughts)
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Two phoenixes, born of fire, rising from the ashes of the past. The wheel of fate is turning and the Dragon is poised to strike. But blood of the deceiver may change the course of destiny. Beware the man with the painted smile who lingers close to your side. Turn the scorned. Free the enslaved. Fear the bonded men. Many will fall for one to ascend. Suffer the curse. The hunter will pay the price. Do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Keep the broken promise. Mend the rift. All that hides in the shadows is not dark. Blood will out. Seal your fate. Choose your destiny.
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Caroline Peckham (Fated Throne (Zodiac Academy, #6))
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You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly.
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Shauna Niequist (Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way)
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Bird of the sky
still bound to the earth,
soaring to unimaginable heights
yet returning to perch in the willow.
Death is near, always near
and so...is life
even in the ashes.
Rise Up Phoenix.
Live. Fly. Create!
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Runa Heilung
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Now, when a new day dawns for us after the long night of darkness and the phoenix rises regenerated from its ashes, we have invented a new self. And the physical, biological expression of the new self is literally becoming someone else. Thatβs true metamorphosis.
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Joe Dispenza (You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter)
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Heβd been a broken man, an addict who was hopelessly lost in the past, drifting through life alone with little purpose and even less faith that it could get better. Anyone with any sense would have steered clear. But from the first moment Ty had really looked into Zaneβs eyes, heβd seen behind them, into the man Zane was capable of being. Heβd seen a phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes, and he still did. Every time he looked into Zane, he saw something extraordinary.
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Abigail Roux (Armed & Dangerous (Cut & Run, #5))
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His old life was literally in flames behind him. But Annev was a phoenix. He would find a way to rise from the ashes.
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Justin Call (Master of Sorrows (The Silent Gods, #1))
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After a thousand years pass, it builds its own funeral pyre, lining it with cinnamon, myrrh and cassia. Climbing to a rest on the very top, it examines the world all throughout the night with the ability to see true good and evil. When the sun rises the next morning, with great sorrow for all that it sees, it sings a haunting song. As it sings, the heat of the sun ignites the expensive spices and the Phoenix dies in the flames.
But the Phoenix is not remarkable for its feathers or flames. It is most revered for its ability to climb from its own funeral pyre, from the very ashes of its old charred body, as a brand new life ready to live again once more. Life after life, it goes through this cycle. It absorbs human sorrow, only to rise from death to do it all again. It never wearies, it never tires. It never questions its fate. Some say that the Phoenix is real, that it exists somewhere out there in the mountains of Arabia, elusive and mysterious. Others say that the Phoenix is only a wish made by desperate humans to believe in the continuance of life.
But I know a secret.
We are the Phoenix.
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Courtney Cole (Every Last Kiss (The Bloodstone Saga, #1))
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We rise and our wings are flame.
We rise and our food is air. We
rise and we are heat and we are
light, and we are dark and we
are bright, and we lick the wind
with our thousand fiery tongues.
We rise from the wizard-nation's
wreck.
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Amal El-Mohtar (The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories)
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you canβt ever be broken. You are a hero, and even though you might fall to your knees on a bathroom floor under the pressure of it all, you will rise, like a phoenix from the ashes, and you will stay true to the integrity of your calling.
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Lissa Rankin (The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose)
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Itβs crucial to be able to gather enough inner strength to rise up from the ashes like the Phoenix Bird, when itβs necessary.
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Sahara Sanders
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A phoenix rises from the ashes because it cannot burn in them.
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Dannika Dark (Evildoer (Crossbreed, #12))
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Embrace your phoenix. Rise from the ashes, and burn bright once more.
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Penn Cole (Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2))
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Youβre the phoenix rising from the ashes. Iβm honoured I could be the one to let you express that.β He grinned. βIn more ways than one.
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Cherrie Lynn (Take Me On (Ross Siblings, #4))
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He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
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Dean Koontz (Sole Survivor)
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Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes.
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Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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From the time weβre children, weβre taught that the path is more important than the obstacles that appear on it. Weβre told to focus on the destination rather than the journey. We repeatedly hear the story of the phoenix rising from the ashes, but we fail to remember (or conveniently forget to remember) that the ashes are made of the charred, scorched remains of the phoenixβs βlife before.
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Shelby Forsythia (Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss)
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Iβm an assassin,β Ty said, his voice unsteady. βIβm a killer. Iβm the tip of a spear. And you,β Ty continued, his voice breaking. βYouβre a phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make you burn.
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Abigail Roux (Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run, #7))
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He had failed. He had failed in every possible way with every possible choice he had ever made. Jack was still crazy. He was alone. And he was in a prison of his own design. The embarrassment and regret were choking him from the inside out, and all of a sudden he was screaming.
It started small, but it bubbled bigger every minute. Rising black and ugly through the veins in his feet, up and up, bursting his cells and filling his lungs, encasing itself around his bones and finally spilling from his eyes, tacky like tar. It tumbled from his mouth in a howl of rage so deep it shook his teeth. The hairs rose on the back of his neck.
It was a shout of pain so pure and hot, he could have sworn it was burning out his eyes.
And then, like a living nightmare, his howl roused the other patients to noisemaking. Like a battle cry. It soared above the symphony of their screams of confusion and fear, the banging on the doors and the weeping. Soared above all. A phoenix that burned and fell to ash before it could set alight the room at the very end of the hall where the dreammaker lived, imprisoned by his visions. Unanchored and unnoticed in the dark.
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K. Ancrum (The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1))
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Greatness comes in many forms. Some obvious, others not so much, but there is one constant everyone called to greatness has in common: you will be pushed beyond your comfort zone, broken down and reduced to ash, but from this, you will rise and be more than you ever thought you could be.β From the ashes, the phoenix will rise.
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Jaymin Eve (Rejected (Shadow Beast Shifters, #1))
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Scorpio women, learn to embrace your intense and passionate nature. You are meant to feel more profoundly than the average person. You are the epitome of transformation, death, and rebirth. Rising from the ashes and exerting the divine energy of the Phoenix. You are powerful.
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Robin S. Baker
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The notebook had been a gift from his mother. A reward, she had said, for doing well in his test at school. On the cover was a Phoenix. βItβs a bird,β she had told him with a smile. βThey never die. Not properly. They rise from the ashes of their old lives and start a new one.
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Mason Sabre (The Rise of the Phoenix)
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Like the Phoenix
I rise from the ashes
The challenge of darkness
May eclipse
My thoughts
Stealing positive words
From my lips
Paralysing me to my fingertips
But again I will arise once more
Like I've done so many times before
As the crests of the wave
Leaves its anchor of the shore
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Lorraine Day
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One day, we wake up to the narcissistβs cunning masquerade. We watch their fake mask slip off their face. Everything becomes crystal clear. We see right through their phony disguise.
To anyone whoβs dealt with the pain and torment of a narcissist, a silver lining is a sign of hope. Hope that someday you can break free from the abuse. Hope to rebuild a better life. Hope to find comfort and peace within. Hope to recover from your trauma. Hope to embrace a brighter future.
We can no longer unsee their hideous charade. We accept how lethal a malignant narcissist is. We actively set healthy boundaries. We walk away from hurtful relationships. Like the Phoenix, we rise above the fiery ashes. We stand up, dust ourselves off, and march forward.
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Dana Arcuri (Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma)
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THE TREE OF LIFE
The sun is rising,
And the ether dance at the first sight of his light,
As he ascends like a phoenix from the ashes of morality,
His luminous rays form the magnificent tree of life.
He springs up from the east,
Spreading his long arms like branches,
Over the horizons of milky meadows and open seas,
Extending his wings to embrace all living things.
He walks on water and grazes through fields,
Pouring his butter like honey to feed the Earth.
Towering over all of creation,
He who is the lamp of the universe,
The power source of all life.
And in his truth and light,
Everything becomes aroused
Like a flower,
And everything is given
Sight.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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It is possible, but not guaranteed, to rise from the ashes as a phoenix, as not everyone is capable of it.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Once I rise from the ashes as a phoenix, then there will be no going back down until death do me apart with success.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
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Cecilia London (Phoenix (The Bellator Saga, #4))
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Carl Sagan (Cosmos)
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Are we not all a Phoenix of one kind or another? We are born from fire and rise from the ashes to be strong, passionate and hopeful again.
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Bibiana Krall (The Soul Keeper)
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She could be a phoenix, rising like that firebird from the ashes of who she had been
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Christine Feehan (Shadow Flight (Shadow Riders, #5))
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From the ashes of its former self, the phoenix rises anew, reborn and renewed. It reminds us that even in our darkest moments, there is always hope, always a chance to begin again.
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Nicoleclaire C. (Guardians of Glyndor (The Disappearing Creatures, #1))
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Rise from the ashes and become the phoenix. Let your glory and wisdom keep blazing on forever. This is your chance. This is your time. Remake your life into something truly spectacular.
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Dilip Bathija (The Superhero Soul: Quest for Inspiration, Happiness, Success and Greatness (The Superhero Soul, #1))
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Phoenix Queen:
You blaze so brightly
You set fire to the heart of this world.
You conjure up enormous love in all you give,
And keep rising from the ashes as a Phoenix queen.
Some will be burned by your flame,
Try to cool you, put you out,
Make you think that your passion is something to doubt,
But the ones that truly matter will dance with your flame,
Stoke you, stroke you,
And stay lit right beside you.
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Christine Evangelou (The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry)
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scars are badges of honors we wear proudly to show that we survived what life threw our way. You can try to beat us, kill us, but like the phoenix, we will rise from the ashes and rain motherfucking revenge on you
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R.G. Angel (Her Heartless Savior (The Syndicates, #2))
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I was graduating in two months, but I wasn't to Pitzer, that was for sure. I was the old child, the past that had to burned away, so my mother, the phoenix, could emerge once again, a golden bird rising from the ash.
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Janet Fitch (White Oleander)
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Youβre not defined by how you fall. Everyone falls at some time or another. Youβre defined by how you rise. Every phoenix has to burn before it can rise from the ashes. Itβs why they are a symbol of strength and hope.
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Amelia Hutchins (Death Before Dawn (Guardian's Diary, #2))
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We didnβt find our rightful audience, but from the ashes of the AC scene, we shall rise again β the Phoenix always does. Our true audience will find its way to us eventually. Itβs not unusual for a false audience to come first.
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David Sinclair (Without the Mob, There Is No Circus)
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In my end is my beginning, as someone once said. Who was that? Mary, Queen of Scots, if history does not lie. Her motto, with a phoenix rising from its ashes, embroidered on a wall hanging. Such excellent embroiderers, women are.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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Claim yourself to be your ideal, not as something that you will be in time, but as that which you are in the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of limitations will disintegrate as your new claim rises like the phoenix from its ashes.
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Neville Goddard (The Neville Collection: All the Books of a Modern Master)
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Then his attention was caught by the bird of paradise.
"So that's what that looks like?" he asked. "Like one of the paper cranes we had to burn after Pearl Harbor." He took a step closer. "That fiery orange blossom - damned if it doesn't look like a phoenix rising from the ashes."
Ruth understood, at last, what the crane flower had represented to her mother. It wasn't Hawai'i, as much as she had loved Hawai'i. It wasn't good fortune; and it wasn't longevity. No, not even that.
It was rebirth.
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Alan Brennert (Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2))
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Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".
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Nehali Lalwani (Her Story)
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They say that near the end of its life, a Phoenix builds a nest of twigs, and then ignites it; both, the nest and the bird burn until merely ashes are left, from which a new, young phoenix arises, reborn to live again.
No, some Phoenixes don't rise again, they are fated to burn in their own hell till infinity
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Shahid Hussain Raja
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That night marked an end for me and for my ribbons. Yet it was an ending I badly needed. I needed to be forced to stand on my own two feet, without anything to catch me. I only wish they could have been spared that same journey. But I needed to be cut down to finally rise up on my own like a phoenix from the ashes.
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Raven Kennedy (Glow (The Plated Prisoner, #4))
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She is fragile as the morning dew
melting in the warmth of a child's smile;
stirring at the lonely, lovely waft
of a butterfly's wings;
tender as the curve
of a wildflower petal.
She is fierce as a summer storm
now raging against the fiery sky;
now raining tears to soothe
the sun-scorched earth.
She is soft as a midnight breeze
swaying to the sound of waves breaking
on distant shores;
whispering comfort to a world
steeped in the dark night of inhumanity.
She is brilliant as the rising Phoenix
lifting the suffering from the ashes;
her own suffering woven into wings of fire
in the long watches of the night.
She is serene and turbulent as the silvered water
hiding currents unknown beneath the gentle gaze
of a human who has walked a thousand miles and still has more to go.
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L.R. Knost
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Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution of money. For hundreds of years, the Midas Theory, systematized by Mercantilism, has been the rule followed by governments in taking measures of commercial policy. In spite of Hume, Smith, and Ricardo, it still dominates men's minds more than would be expected. Phoenix-like, it rises again and again from its own ashes.
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Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises))
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A moth flying into the flame says with its wingfire, 'Try this.'
The wick with its knotted neck broken, tells you the same.
A candle as it diminishes explains, 'Gathering more and more is not the way. Burn, become light and heat and help. Melt.'
The ocean sits in the sand letting its lap fill with pearls and shells, then empty.
A bittersalt taste hums, 'This.'
The phoenix gives up on good-and-bad, flies to rest on Mt. Qaf, no more burning and rising from ash. It sends out one message.
The rose purifies its face, drops the soft petals, shows its thorn, and points.
Wine abandons thousands of famous names, the vintage years and delightful bouquets, to run wild and anonymous through your brain.
The flute closes its eyes and gives its lips to Hamzaβs emptiness.
Everything begs with the silent rocks for you to be flung out like light
over this plain, the presence of Shams.
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi (The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems)
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You have yet to glimpse my reign, but it is not a crown you should fear falling to me.
I will rain down the stars so you may never dream upon them. I will rain down Phoenixfyre to burn all you build to ash and I will rain down the might of the Ashfyre name to avenge the bloodline you betrayed. You are staring into the face of your deepest fear Malin, for when I am finished with you, - her chest heaved with a promise so final, words that struck like a declaration from the Gods- you will all yield to me.
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Chloe C. PeΓ±aranda (A Sword from the Embers (An Heir Comes to Rise, #5))
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We American's are the example of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We vote Republican; again buying the line that they are deficit hawks and, when in power, they both feast on our blood and treasure and stuff their coffers with sweat literally from our brows.
Again, fed up, we elect Democrats and they repair what the Republicans purposely and yet strategically managed to do. Then, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes with renewed youth, the Republican deficit hawks emerge; spoon feeding us the same old bullshit until we bend to their will. We, in turn, vote them to power and, yet again, the ravenous lot feeds.
This year...this era, however, they're governing like Kamikaze pilots, not giving one bit of damn about either public opinion nor their place in government. I believe that they see the writing on the wall and, with much fervor, are seeking to grab everything they can get their greedy little hands on.
Will we ever get off this hamster wheel, my fellow Americans?
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A.K. Kuykendall
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Black women have always been at the bottom of the human race. In that bottom of a pit, they were abused, misjudged, neglected, and unseen. In the end, there were two options left for them; to diminish and die, or to be strong and rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Today, black women are using their strength to make an imprint of their existence. They are here to conquer the brutal neglect, injustice, hatred, mistreatment, and inequality.
Black women are saying: here we are in all our beauty, glory, strength, and assertiveness. See us. Know us. Recognise us. Give us what we're worth. Above all else, respect us.
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Mitta Xinindlu
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It has been ground into me by the bitter experiences of last year that I am old, that I must be denied some things, that the door has closed forever on passionate communion with another human being. The mutilated body appears then to be the physical evidence of that fact. But the phoenix rising again from the flames tells me otherwise. The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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May Sarton (Recovering: A Journal)
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It rises again, the frenzied smoke
as the phoenix rises from the ashes
shadows of dreams on the hills
a melange of memories
She speaks in unheard words
poignant with meanings deep
another bird of silence caws
as the breeze swirls and spins
My grandmother told me stories
about the mountains and the lakes
I saw the rainbows of hope
swaying to the music
as the daffodils of joy to the rain
The opalescent sky looks melancholy
as the clouds of Alzheimer's hover her life
perhaps she has not forgotten everything
I hope the moon tells her about me
I keep searching for my footsteps now
smudged in the sands of time
like the proverbial breeze that drifts
but never gets to stay a while
Gazing at old photographs, I keep
the memories treasured and vaulted
a boulevard of thatched moments
a promenade of myriad stories!
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Avijeet Das
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Iβm Phoenix. The mythical bird that rises from the ashes. Iβve risen from fear and grief, from scandal and suffering, and from the crushing loneliness of walking with a purpose that is outside myself, but not within me. I know whatβs within me now, and Iβm ready to fly again.
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Heidi Joy Tretheway (The Phoenix Candidate: The Queen (Grace Colton, #0.4))
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Sometimes dreams did come true. Like a phoenix from the ashes, the wreckage of their family had been pieced together to rise back strong to take its place among the living. Damaged somewhat, and a bit worse for wear, but never broken or destroyed.
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Felice Stevens (Embrace the Fire (Through Hell and Back, #3))
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We sit in an awkward silence for a few minutes before she speaks. βYouβre right. Thereβs more to it.β Iβm not sure if I should wait and let her speak, or if sheβs waiting for an acknowledgement. I slowly turn my head toward her and settle my eyes on hers. βI went through a rough time a few years ago. I wasnβt sure things would get better for me. One day, Rick and Jo were able to knock some sense into me. When a Phoenix dies, it rises from its ashes to have a new life.β Her eyes leave mine as she rolls to her back and stares at the stars. βThe tattoo reminds me of that. One chapter of my life may end, but that doesnβt mean a new chapter wonβt come from the ashes. It probably sounds silly to you.
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Rein Scott (Reborn (Phoenix Phyre, #1))
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He didnβt know what the feeling was, but it was like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of his almost-dead soul. How dramatic. Take that, Shakespeare.
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Carly Fall (The Light Within Me (Six Saviors, #1))
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Be Like The Phoenix. From The Midst Of Your Ashes...Get Up And Rise Again!
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Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
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What?β he asks. βIt feels as if Iβve always known you, perhaps even in other lifetimes.β βYou know what youβre like?β His voice is but a whisper. I lean forward. βTell me.β βYouβre like a force that swept into my life, cast me into the winds, and set me ablaze. Afterwards you made me rise from the ashes, like a phoenix reborn.
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Georgia Le Carre (The Billionaire Banker Series: Box Set #1-3 (The Billionaire Banker, #1-3))
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Rise from the ashes of the old year like the phoenix and become the person you truly want to be. Bohdi Sanders
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Bohdi Sanders (BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior)
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The phoenix must succumb to the fire before she is able to rise from the ashes
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T.M. Hart (Shadow's Kiss (Shadow Series, #1))
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All the men in her life had failed to protect her. They never realized they had something as rare as gold in the palms of their hands. Instead, they shoved her in a bottomless sinkhole to wither away. Now, I got to watch her rise from the ashes like a godd*mn phoenix.
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Natalie Bennett (Deviants (Badlands, #2))
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Even the phoenix that rises from the ashes can't recover instantly from mental damage.
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Ichei Ishibumi
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Like all chronic disease, chronic pain involves a bifurcation,β he said. βThere is the normal state, where you used to live, and you are conditioned to that state. Then you face a debilitating circumstance that lasts for months or years. When youβre in that second state, you hold on to expectations of that first life: you mourn that first lifeβyou want it and want it a million times over. But people have to let themselves die and lose their old expectations. If they let it die, they can rise like a phoenix from the ashes and can have a new life. The doctor has to help them die and be reborn with a vital, rich life.
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Melanie Thernstrom (The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering)
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It was only a matter of time until Rose's secrets die with her, but the firebird would live on. And like a phoenix from the ashes, it would rise again.
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Melissa Grey (The Girl at Midnight (The Girl at Midnight, #1))
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He enters the House of High Dudgeon. The floor is hard and on the walls hang tapestries of fantastical scenes: griffin fighting unicorns, a phoenix rising from the ashes, attack ships on fire off the coast of Smyrna.
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Lavie Tidhar
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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Virat Kohli has risen.
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Avijeet Das
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It was like a phoenix rising from the ashes of my story, my pain was my fuel, as I look back I am grateful for this time in my life...
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Christina Foxwell
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If Iβve shifted anything, itβs only because you, Mama, and Nai Nai lent me your strength.β
As Mulan out a long breath, a spark leapt from one of the incense sticks. As it floated downward, it seemed inexplicably to multiply, over and over until there were hundreds of sparks floating in the air of the temple.
βBaba,β Mulan whispered.
The sparks rearranged themselves, clustering, expanding, and re-forming, until they became a dragon that soared through the air. Next to it, a fiery bird flapped its wings. They cavorted together, chasing each other in dizzying circles, until, suddenly, they scattered again into ash. The glowing sparks floated slowly to the ground and winked out one by one.
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Livia Blackburne (Feather and Flame (The Queen's Council, #2))
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a glimmer of hope return from somewhere deep, rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of defeat and impossibility. In a whisper I was accustomed to, she said βThank youβ and
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Charles Martin (When Crickets Cry)
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You held my hand and took me to places magical,
I kept your words like sacred verses, wrapped up in red ribbons, at the back of my mind.
You made me rise like a phoenix from the ashes, my existence became mythical,
When your lips touched mine, I experienced sheer bliss that I could never find.
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Namrata Gupta (Lost Love Late Love)
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They didn't know me, but one day they would. I would rise from the ashes that tried to suffocate me. I would be like a phoenix amid the filth, flying high above them. And this time, it would be my baby and me. She'd be great, a force to be reckoned with, smart, intelligent, and wise beyond her years. She would not suffer fools, and she would not let any man deter her.
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Xyla Turner (Mr. West (Mister #2))