"There's a part of every living thing that……" — Ellen Bass
"There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality."
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16 Quotes by Ellen Bass
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Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
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It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . .…
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Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a…
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There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything…
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people…
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Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.
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I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've…
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I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
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Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from…
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's…
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles…
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'.…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
— Joyce Brothers
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning.…
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round:…
— Anton Chekhov
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