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  Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

  Candace Bushnell

  Love, Single, People

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• Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

  Steve Bull

  Worry, Nerves, Tricks

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• We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Flower, Personal Growth

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• The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "Why My Journey Of Grief Is So Like A Butterfly’s Metamorphosis" by Laurie Burrows Grad, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Tragedy

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beauty, Beautiful, Self Esteem

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• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Happiness, Spring, Wings

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

  W. H. Davies

  Sleep, Night, Light

  William Henry Davies, “Joy And Pleasure”

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• Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

  Kjell Bloch Sandved

  Wings, Messages, Written

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• I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

  Janusz Korczak

  Beautiful, Wings, Drunk

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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• and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

  Wendy Mass

  Light, Wings, True Beauty

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Passion, Men, Hygiene

  "Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2016.

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• ...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

  Barbara Hambly

  Hands, Giving, Choices

  Barbara Hambly (1999). “Winterlands”, Del Rey

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• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Beautiful, Beard, Moments

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• I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Good Morning, Feelings

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• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Respect, Nature

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• Success is not something you pursue.
  
  What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies.
  
  Success is something you attract by the person you become.

  Jim Rohn

  Elude You, Trying, Pursue

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 08, 2013

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Chasing Butterflies, Gold

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• and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

  Ruskin Bond

  Beautiful, War, Stills

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• I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

  William Stafford

  Discovery, Experience, Want

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Book, Writing

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Thinking, Wings, Goal

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