196+ EXCLUSIVE Butterfly Quotes For Beautiful Change

To Native Americans, the butterfly is a symbol of change, joy and color. It is also considered a miracle of transformation and resurrection. Inspiring butterfly quotes will remind you what matters most in life and what true beauty means. Don’t be afraid of your own growth process.

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Best Butterfly Quotes

Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.

You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process. – Rupi Kaur

Butterflies are self-propelled flowers. – R.H. Heinlein

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. – Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. – Guillermo del Toro

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Maya Angelou

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly. – Barbara Haines Howett

Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow. – Ana Claudia Antunes

A flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don’t know, if you will ever come back. – Sanober Khan

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. – Richard Bach

The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower a tethered butterfly. – Ponce Denis

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everyone is like a butterfly; they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. – Drew Barrymore

butterfly quotes about happiness

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. – Chuang Tzu

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. – Louie Schwartzberg

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. – William Stafford

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

butterfly quotes about change

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me. – Gayle Forman

Short Butterfly Quotes

Butterflies are more like flowers; there only advantage is that they can touch the sky.

A caterpillar, after its deep slumber, ‘wakes up to reality’ to realize, that truth is not always bitter after all! – Manali Oak

Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.
– Brian D’Ambrosio

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I’m a beautiful, black butterfly. – Tracy Morgan

inspiring butterfly quotes

What would a butterfly quote, on looking in the mirror? It would say, ‘the adventure was worth it!’ – Manali Oak

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. Jeffrey Glassberg

Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner. – Norah Lofts

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. – Stephanie Marshall

inspirational butterfly quotes

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. – Deborah Chaskin

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly. – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better. – Movie, A Bug’s Life

The butterflies…What an educated sense of beauty they have. They seem only an ornament to society, and yet, if they were gone, how substantial would be their loss. – Phil Robinson

famous butterfly sayings

Take time to be a butterfly. – Gillian Duce

To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree after a year and a thousand miles. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – George Carlin

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry. – Melody Lee

famous butterfly quotes

Butterflies… flowers that fly and all but sing. – Robert Frost

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoons without tempering my amazement. Knowing all beauty eventually dies. – Justin Wetch

butterfly sayings with pictures

‘How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. – Trina Paulus

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. – Muhammad Ali

Be Like A Butterfly Quotes

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

butterfly quotes

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. – Bradley Millar

A great beginning is sometimes at the point of what you thought would be the end of everything. – Dodinsky

‘Just living is not enough,’ said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.’ – Hans Christian Anderson

I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves. – Drew Barrymore

butterfly quotes with images

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies. – Wendy Mass

I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower, where roses and lilies and violets meet. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

The butterfly said to the sun, ‘They can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can only do it once in my lifetime. If only they knew, they can do it at any time and in countless ways.’ – Dodinsky

butterfly quotes about life

And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. – Ruskin Bond

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

With the rose the butterfly’s deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, the sun’s sweet ray is hovering found. – Heinrich Heine

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies. – Patricia Velasquez

Butterflies are a unique reminder of the value of growth, patience, perseverance, adaptation and faith. Also, quotes about elephants will give you the wisdom you need to be yourself and live free.

Meaningful Butterfly Quotes to Navigate Life

I think that positivity, real positivity, is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, winged creature. When I look at a butterfly, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty. – C. JoyBell C.

Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are, and there’s the world. You’re outside staring in the window, observing reality happen, but you don’t exist in it. You just watch, and watch. That’s how I feel, like the dead butterfly staring back at you through the glass. – Kyle Labe

Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul. – K. D’Angelo

Butterflies are God’s confetti, thrown upon the Earth in celebration of His love. – K. D’Angelo

The butterfly flits from bloom to bloom, as not to miss one fragrant plume. In her sight exists no garden finale, only paradise of flowered hill and valley. – K. D’Angelo

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? – Zhuangzi

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

Butterflies are a breath of beauty fluttering by, they are mystery chronicled upon wing, they bring forth the grace and wonder of this world to our eyes every day. – K. D’Angelo

Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. – Rabindranath Tagore

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don’t (…) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That’s me and my memories. – Douglas Coupland

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free. – Wilma Rudolph

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

When God becomes glad with our good works, then He sends the cute animals, birds, butterflies etc. near us like a signal to express His happiness. – Md. Ziaul Haque

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. – Mandy Hale

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times. – Friedrich Nietzsche

If butterflies could sing, they would sing, ‘Baby Shark.’ – Anthony T. Hincks

I’d be a butterfly; living a rover, dying when fair things are fading away. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly. – Peta Kelly

When you need to remember the value of letting go of the old in order to discover the new, meaningful quotes give you an even greater sense of the meaning of life.

Famous Butterflies Sayings About Transformation and Happiness

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There’s no better way to fly. – Patrick Monahan

‘Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing,’ said the Butterfly. – Sabrina Newby

Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be. – Kelseyleigh Reber

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? – Dante Alighieri

It’s very tough for me to focus. I’m like: ‘Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!’ – Gabby Douglas

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing. – Dolly Parton

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. – Alma Gluck

I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea. – Si Robertson

If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings! – Claire Williams

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. – Lisa Kleypas

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did, and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. – Ernest Hemingway

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. – Anna Pavlova

When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. – Mary Meeker

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. – Gary Zukav

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night. – Thomas Berry

You’ve got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis. – Mike Markkula

What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies? – Roy Rogers

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. – Zeenat Aman

To become a butterfly, a caterpillar undergoes massive transformation. And cute thoughts will inspire to transform yourself into who you really want to be.

Beautiful Butterfly Quotes To Honor Your Own Metamorphosis

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

To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal, and may you feel happy in your lives. Flutter as the butterflies do. – Krystal

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie. – Benedict Cumberbatch

They say, ‘Only in dreams men are truly free.’ What does a butterfly dream about? It’s already free. – Scholasticus K

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that’s it, you’re dead. Then they’ll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons. – Helen Oyeyemi

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It’s said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly. – Lynn Margulis

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow, we’re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don’t come suddenly. – Sue Monk Kidd

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. – Joyce Brothers

When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace, compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet. – Michael Beckwith

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. – Robert Wyatt

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. – Jesse Taylor

I like to read books and be alone; I’m not social butterfly person. – Hope Solo

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that’s beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people, the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world. – Marketa Irglova

Self-realization is a strange term. You don’t actually realize your self. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges, metamorphosis. – Frederick Lindemann

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay. – Pat Barker

Just as the caterpillar transitions into a beautiful butterfly, hippie quotes empower your own metamorphosis to freedom.

Inspirational Butterfly Quotes For A Great Day

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. – Kendrick Lamar

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledgehammer to smash a butterfly. – Imogene Coca

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters. – Ashley Bell

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one – like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. – Gillian Flynn

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. – Andre Rieu

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. – Pierre Bonnard

The term ‘breakout’ always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. – Tessa Thompson

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name. – John le Carre

My favorite movie is ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.’ – Jason Momoa

A cockroach likely has no less brain power than a butterfly, but we’re quicker to deny it consciousness because it’s a species we dislike. – Jeffrey Kluger

The butterfly does not count the months of its life but rather it counts the moments and yet all the time it has is still enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies, flowers that fly and all but sing. – Robert Frost

They seemed to suddenly come upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in a winter wood. – Edith Wharton

I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days, three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. – John Keats

Magical transformation of butterfly is inspiring in so many ways and comfort zone quotes motivate you to face your fear and step out of your safety bubbles.

Positive Butterfly Quotes About Change

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average lifespan is a mere five to fourteen days. – Ellen DeGeneres

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies that just because their lives were short didn’t mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that. – Lisa Genova

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival. – Gemma Malley

I tell of hearts and souls and dances. Butterflies and second chances; desperate ones and dreamers bound, seeking life from barren ground, who suffer on in earthly fate. The bitter pain of agony hate, might but they stop and here forgive. Would break the bonds to breathe and live? And find that God in goodness brings. A chance for change, the hope of wings, to rest in Him, and self to die. And so, become a butterfly. – Karen Kingsbury

When I was a girl, I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. – Patch Adams

I could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. – Patch Adams

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. – Haruki Murakami

Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this. – Matshona Dhliwayo

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. – LeeAnn Taylor

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. – Harley King

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who’ve been in love with the wrong man too often. – Alice Hoffman

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home. – Emme Rollins

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

Minutes passed by. A little blue butterfly landed on my nose. I blinked at it and it fluttered to my ear. A big yellow butterfly gently floated over and landed on my paw. Soon a whole swarm of them floated up and down around me, like a swirl of multicolored petals. It happened in my backyard, too, if the magic was strong enough. Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitate to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you’d have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies. – Ilona Andrews

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. – Jane Yolen

A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought. But no, a butterfly. – Arakida Moritake

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing. – Philip Yancey

Motivating Quotations About Butterflies For New Beginning

Only in a place where the rules of the game remain fixed is there time for butterflies to evolve to feed on the shit of birds that evolved to follow ants. – Elizabeth Kolbert

A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colors. – Peter Goldsworthy

Love takes my insides and twists and turns them until they’re inside out, upside down, knotted in knots, and full of butterflies. And you know what? I love it! – Anthony T. Hincks

I welcome all butterflies into my heart because that feeling is a constant reminder of how alive and full of love I truly am. – Karen A. Baquiran

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wing beats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing. – Jean-Dominique Bauby

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world. – Shawn Lukas

We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning its life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly. – Heather Wolf

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly. – Matshona Dhliwayo

It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. – Ram Dass

The great loneliness like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive. – Elizabeth Lesser

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. – George Sand

Cute Quotes About Butterflies To Celebrate Beauty

When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness. Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. – Necole Stephens

Let go of the past. Trust the future. Embrace change. Come out of the cocoon. Unfurl your wings. Dare to get off the ground. Ride the breezes. Savor the flowers. Put on your brightest colors. Let your beauty show.

Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.

Nothing ever really goes away, it just changes into something else. Something beautiful. – Sarah Ockler

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

Love is like butterfly, beautiful and delicate… If you truly care for it, you’ll do whatever you can to make it happy, even if that means letting it go. – Scott Pemberton

Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. – Kjell B. Sandved

She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
– Nikki Rowe

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings. – Dean Jackson

A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity. – Marlene Van Niekerk

A power of Butterfly must be
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky
– Emily Dickinson

Forgetting… is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself… For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly. – Robert Jackson Bennett

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up. – Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

Butterflies add another dimension to the garden, for they are like dream flowers – childhood dreams – which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine. – Miriam Rothschild

It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. – Trina Paulus

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The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle. – Janet S. Dickens

Happiness is like a butterfly. It comes and rests quietly on your shoulder when you least expect it.

The wings of hope carry us high over the winds of life.

Don’t chase the butterfly. Mend your garden, and let the butterfly come. – Mario Quintana

These are flowers that fly and all but sing. – Robert Frost

Butterflies are nature’s angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive. – Robyn Nola

Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly.

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.

You still give me the butterflies.

Never hide your wings.

How does one become a butterfly? You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. – Trina Paulus

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. – Tom Robbins

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again. – Max Lucado

Be like a butterfly and a flower—beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle. – Jarod Kintz

Representation is vital, otherwise the butterfly surrounded by a group of moths unable to see itself will keep trying to become the moth – representation. – Rupi Kaur

Social butterflies.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. – Vladimir Nabokov

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all. – George Vaillant

‘How does one become butterfly?’ Pooh asked pensively.
‘You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,’ Piglet replied.
‘You mean to die?’ asked Pooh.
‘Yes and no,’ he answered. ‘What looks like you will die, but what’s really you will live on.’

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