Does the butterfly lose time in the months it grows from caterpillar to flying beauty? One day, I’m going to want to sleep twelve hours at a stretch and I won’t be able to. I’m not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
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I am not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis. When butterflies grow from caterpillars to flying beauty, they don’t lose time. They are simply changing into something else.

This is how it is with us, too. We change into different people, perhaps better people than we were the day before. The key to success is to be willing to go through this metamorphosis so that we can be better people than we were yesterday.

Source: Trace The Grace: A Memoir

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