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• I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Fall, Support Systems, People

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Butterfly, Winter

  "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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• You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Skins, Trying, Way

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• There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Helping, Beautiful Butterfly

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Hate, People, My Own

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• Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Eye, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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• And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

  Tracy Morgan

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Black

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Butterfly, Self, Meditation

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• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Life Changing, Struggle, Butterfly

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• I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

  Tim Robbins

  Doe, Kind, Remember

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• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  Carrie Snodgress

  Love, Pain, Intensity

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• The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Space, Brave, Challenges

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Sugar, Reeds

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• You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Limits, Transformation

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 08, 2009

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• I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Butterfly, Age, Demand

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• When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Prayer, Butterfly

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 14, 2013

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• Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

  Rachel Vail

  Sight, People, Growing

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• When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Home, Dark

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Teenager, Butterfly

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

  Laini Taylor

  Stupid, Butterfly, Generations

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• For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Moving, Inspiration

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• I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Chance, Touring

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

  Richard Harris

  Men, Tree, Eating

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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