145 Metaphor Quotes for You to Enjoy

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings. Henry Cloud

Time Great Everything Alive Recognize Able Something Well Metaphor Passed Pruning Endings Move Which Next Requires Season Seasons

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell

God Religion Simple Thought Metaphor Intellectual Transcends Which Levels

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. Elizabeth Gilbert

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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. Jane Smiley

Life Example Beauty Changing Worthy Unpredictability Object Horse Mystery Generosity Contemplation Also Metaphor Repeated Discovered Itself Ever

There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen. Kris Carr

Great You Water Doctors Healthy Organic Swimming Sick Fats Nuts System Vitamins Eating Clean Dirty Cleaned Take Raw Am Metaphor Fish Tank Up Vet Gets Greens Oxygen Body Uses Flooding

Everybody says, 'I want to change,' but they're not willing to pay the price of it. That was the metaphor of 'Life's Golden Ticket'... Life is some kind of a ride, and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you've got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do. Brendon Burchard

Life You Change People Ride Amazing Will Pay Everybody Says Kind Willing Willingness Some Above Price Ticket Beyond Most Got Metaphor Exhilarating Get Golden Want

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

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'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario. Neill Blomkamp

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. Octavio Paz

Time Before Universe Par Seed Excellence Point Couple Return Forces Metaphor Human Forms Intersection

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar? Alan Ball

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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. Audre Lorde

Time People Sex Long Enough Possible Take Know Make Metaphor Survive Personal Going Race Then Teach Multiply Keep Thing

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. Bill Bradley

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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am. Dan Wakefield

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? Dennis Potter

Writing Amazing Leap Metaphor Human Create Strangest Thing Speech

Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter

Language Embodied Metaphor

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor. Derrick Jensen

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Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them. Ivanka Trump

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Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. James Geary

Creation Detection Metaphor Just Patterns

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. James Geary

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Metaphor matters because it creates expectations. James Geary

Matters Because Metaphor Expectations Creates

Science always uses metaphor. James Lovelock

Science Always Metaphor Uses

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