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Metaphor Quotes

"Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come."
Paulo Coelho
"It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked"
Warren Buffett
"Love is not just a verb, it's you looking in the mirror"
Kendrick Lamar
"You can't get on my level, you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder that's forever"
Lil Wayne
"Real Gs move in silence like lasagna"
Lil Wayne
"Reality is as thin as paper"
Etel Adnan
"I am a cage in search of a bird"
Franz Kafka
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
Steven Wright
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us"
Franz Kafka
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it"
George Bernard Shaw
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul"
Emily Dickinson
"Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong."
Ted Lasso
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
Leonardo da Vinci
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."
Paulo Coelho
"The madman is a dreamer awake."
Sigmund Freud
"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger."
Sun Tzu
"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."
Sun Tzu
"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."
Muhammad Ali
"If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens."
Rumi