Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Annie Besant
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  3. We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. - LeeAnn Taylor

  4. A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses. - Amanda Mosher

  5. But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies. - Jacqueline Woodson

More Quotes By Annie Besant
  1. The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God, ’...

  2. Thought creates character.

  3. The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

  4. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  5. Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win...

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