Butterflies Changing Quotes & Sayings

Love does take. Loving someone takes strength. Love takes hard work. And sometimes ... Love takes sacrifice. I remember thinking, feeling the only thing worse than being with Drew was being without him. — Cambria Hebert

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I once read somewhere that people would worry much less about what others thought of them if they realized how seldom they did so. — L.S. Hilton

I didn't get to hear the rest, as the skipper poked a red, peeling face out of the wheelhouse and told Billy Lee to get back to work or he wasn't getting paid. The guy looked to be a hundred years old and four feet tall, but when he opened his mouth, even I jumped. — Vincent H. O'Neil

Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media* — Connor Franta

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature. — Sri Aurobindo

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.
It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years. — Maggie Stiefvater

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The Vicar stood aghast, with his smoking gun in his hand. It was no bird at all, but a youth with an extremely beautiful face, clad in a robe of saffron and with iridescent wings, across whose pinions great waves of colour, flushes of purple and crimson, golden green and intense blue, pursued one another as he writhed in his agony. Never had the Vicar seen such gorgeous floods of colour, not stained glass windows, not the wings of butterflies, not even the glories of crystals seen between prisms, no colours on earth could compare with them. Twice the Angel raised himself, only to fall over sideways again. Then the beating of the wings diminished, the terrified face grew pale, the floods of colour abated, and suddenly with a sob he lay prone, and the changing hues of the broken wings faded swiftly into one uniform dull grey hue. Oh! — H.G.Wells

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it. — Glen Hansard

I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind. — Tim Tharp

The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity. — Daniel Yergin

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at. — Louise Bogan

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?"
"Because they're real."
"How do you know?"
"The one I was holding crapped on my hand. — Jim Butcher

... experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be. — Daniel Keyes