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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Butterflies dot springtime with flitting airy kisses. – Terri Guillemets, “Spring flight & grounding,” 2014

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

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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