#butterfly

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

#become #butterfly #caterpillar #development #himself

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#because #bird #butterfly #characteristic #his

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#butterfly #float #like #sting

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on! ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #bill #butterfly #by the time #denver

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#chris #chris rock #did #environmentalist #hill

Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

I’ll love you until the last petal falls, Jules. ↗

— Laura Miller

#first-love #forever #love #love

Love is like a buffalo with butterfly wings, and I’m just the humble man in the jetpack trying to shoot it down with a bow and arrow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bow #buffalo #butterfly #humble #humility

A smitten smile unexpectedly shot across my face, and I quickly hid it as best I could–purely out of habit. Will Stephens doesn’t get smitten smiles. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. ↗

— Laura Miller

#contemporary-romance #love #my-butterfly #love