Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyon

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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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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best
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. – Author Unknown

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“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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Butterflies are self propelled flowers. – R.H. Heinlein

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I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. – John Newcombe

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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because thats what is required of the industry today. – Halle Berry

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Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. – Gene Tierney

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