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[Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.
I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.
Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.
A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.
very rarely does change come in the form you imagined it would. When you're in the cocoon you never know what kind of butterfly is gonna come flying out.
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty.
Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.
You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.
"Aren't we all?" she said ...
The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other - has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding out a way of escape from humanity, on the other annihilating the self.
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.
Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.
Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134)
I'm nothing. the thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where is nothing is real.
metamorphosis is like death,
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
My lips are chapped from the winds of change.
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
pocket lizard licker.
You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change.
Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar.
Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.
You know Anne,' he said quietly, 'when I am with a Hmong or a French or an American person, I am always the one who laughs last at a joke. I am the chameleon animal. You can place me anyplace, and I will survive, but I will not belong. I must tell you that I do not really belong anywhere.
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.
I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
Evolve...or Die...
When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.
All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.
I'm a shape shifter.
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go ...
A lizard, resting in the shade of the anthill, studied Atkinson with interest, tilting its head this way and that. Atkinson studied it in return. A small, dull brown animal, usually it would not catch Atkinson's attention, but under the circumstances it became a thing of beauty.
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting.
If only
you could have witnessed how
much I have changed: sit alone
in a disused theatre and feel what
I have felt, see how the world has
transformed me, like the metamorphosis
of a caterpillar.
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
i am changing
and i am loving change.
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.
In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free.
Sara Niles
Torn From the Inside Out
The caterpillars legs, through perseverance, become wings.
I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.
A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind.
I love life way too much and find fun in almost anything. I'm a chameleon.
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
I am I, with all the individuality of an earthworm. After a rain, who knows the unique pink worm by the twist of its elastic segments. Only the guts of the worm know. And it is nothing to crush the yellow liquid intestines under a casual heel.
I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.
I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.
A chemical weevil," said Jesper, "But Wylan still hasn't named it. My vote is for the Wyvil."
"That's terrible," said Wylan.
"It's brilliant," Jesper winked. "Just like you.
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.
Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.
Everybody is changing.
never ceases to transform.
Change makes you pliable.
I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.
Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.
Discovered it had an emergency back-up personality
Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!
Because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly
Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.
I put on a good show. I strutted my new faith in high histrionic style. I believed what I was saying for the length of time I was saying it. I possessed a chameleon soul.
I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.
When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
Evolve? Like a Pokemon?' I have no idea why I say this. I think I'm kind of going into shock, and the first thing that pops into my head when he says evolve is Charmander evolving into Charizard.
We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.
People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.
This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Wait for it patiently - annihilation or metamorphosis.
It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.
I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.
Caterpillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within.
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
I do not evolve, I simply journey.
You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
What makes you a chaffinch?
Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Don't diss the caterpillar and then sweat it when it starts to turn into a beautiful butterfly.
the lizard living at the base of her spine
metamorphosis, n.:
Love turns us into winged creatures, venturing in ways we never could have conceived in our crawling days.
Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing, said the Butterfly.
All of us evolve everyday! The more we introspect and try to gather ourselves, the more rapid will be the pace of our evolution. The only thing to keep in mind is to be true to yourself.
A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.
Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
Sycophant learns from dogs.
That scorpion is turning me into a human! Quick, stop him! Before the transformation is complete!