"fire of life" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the energy, vitality, or passion that drives a person or a group. Here is an example: "The performers on stage seemed to radiate with the fire of life, captivating the audience with their powerful and energetic dance moves."
LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE, by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $15; ages 10 and up).
In antiquity and the medieval period, the heart was regarded as a furnace where the "fire of life" kept the blood boiling.
Shanley writes in praise of the fire of life, the open heart, the big risk, the search for some higher sense of self, beyond comfort and cash.
Twelve-year-old Luka, a left-handed boy who is "slow to anger and quick to laugh," is on a quest to find the fire of life and save his father, the storyteller Rashid.
It embellished a traditional quest structure with details from video games, puns, rhymes, and exuberant nonsense, telling the tale of a boy's mission to the World of Magic in search of the fire of life to rouse his unwaking father.
They show us, more than perhaps any other ecosystem, what the primeval fire of life is capable of, what it has in fact done over incomprehensible time spans, which we are now undoing permanently.
All these small creatures are working — working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter has damped down the fires of life to mere embers, waiting to flare again into activity as soon as spring awakens the insect world.
It is only a step from the embryology laboratory to the apple tree where a robin's nest holds its complement of blue-green eggs — but eggs that lie cold, the fires of life that flickered for a few days now extinguished.
In the meantime, the fires of life will never stop calling for you.
Countless are they who have nothing but ice water in their veins and cold, still pools where instead the fires of life should glow; this I should know.
My list is not meant to be the Gospel--only the gospel of John, lol, as it is based on my own experiences and tried in the fires of life, and born out of some of my own lack of full preparedness for this walk called manhood.
