"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." -Gautama Buddha
"Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show." -Banky W.
"When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt." -Susan Elizabeth Phillips
"Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders." -David Moody
"Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced." -Marianne Williamson
"My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers." -Nas
"Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake." -Suzy Kassem
"Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions." -Black Elk
"Five friends I had and two of them snakes." -Frederick Buechner
"The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning." -Terry Pratchett
"It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut." -Robin Williams
"One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.." -Frank Herbert
"Self-love forever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it." -Lord Byron
"The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease." -Gautama Buddha
"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake." -Edgar Wallace
"Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied." -Carl Jung
"In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!" -Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late." -M. L. Stedman
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