"17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later."

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Butterfly Quotes #Years Quotes #Wind Quotes

“What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.”
“My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.”
“I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality”
“I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.”
“[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.”
“We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.”
“He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.”

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1834). “The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart”, p.47

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