Chasing Butterflies Quotes

• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

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  Bill Gross

  Butterfly   Chasing Butterflies   Rose  

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• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational   Change   Inspiring  

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

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• In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting on her folded arms, eyes racing over the words, like chasing butterflies over the hills, to catch as many as she could before going to work. She wondered at how such tales of magic could be contained by mere paper and ink for her to read again and again.

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  Matthew J. Kirby

  Morning   Butterfly   Eye  

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  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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• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

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  Karl Kraus

  Book   Reading   Butterfly  

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

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  Mario Quintana

  Inspirational   Time   Butterfly  

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

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  William Moulton Marston

  Work   Taken   Butterfly  

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

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  William Moulton Marston

  Work   Butterfly   Chasing Butterflies  

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• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness   Happy   Butterfly  

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• You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

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  Jane Yolen

  Butterfly   Chasing Butterflies   Long  

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