“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

“Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”

“To become a vampire, you must be bitten by one. To become a ninja, you first have to allow yourself to be one.”