One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — André Gide

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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?- Zhuangzi

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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. — Michelle Obama

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Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett

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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand. ― Oprah Winfrey

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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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. ― Maya Angelou

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