We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way.… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey… — Karle Wilson Baker Copy Share Image
Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly. For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.… — Trina Paulus Copy Share Image
There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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