“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
“A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.”
“Step forward into the new reality every time. Shed your old skin. Do not return to the past.”
“Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.”
“But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.”
“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”