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• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

  Joe Hill

  Depression, Hands, Let It Go

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Expectations, Soul

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.115, London

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• he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Nectar

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The quivering
  of Psyche's butterflies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dancing, Dancer

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.260, New Directions Publishing

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• Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

  Matsuo Basho

  Together, Miles, Late

  Matsuo Basho (2015). “Lips too Chilled”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Journey, Brilliant

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Love Is, Bed

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• Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Cocoons, Predicaments

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

  Emily Dickinson

  Sky, Majesty, Aptitude

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.494, Harvard University Press

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• Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Adults, Remember

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “The Thief Lord”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

  Brian Selznick

  Life, Baby, Children

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.250, Scholastic

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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• One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Flower, Men, Too Much

  Hans Christian Andersen (1870). “Stories and Tales”, p.485

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• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Zebras, Thinking, Wind

  Song: Little Wing

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Men, Waiting

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.

  Michelle Cruz

  Light, Evolve, Like A Butterfly

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• What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

  Roy Rogers

  Garden, Gardening, Social Butterfly

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• We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

  Louise Hart

  Children, Kids, Wings

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• The dog wags its tail only at living things.
  A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
  is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
  even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
  things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
  or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

  Jean Craighead George

  Dog, Cat, Squirrels

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• If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?

  Miley Cyrus

  Smart, Animal, Men

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect . And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations our families and our communities.

  Shawn Achor

  Moving, Positivity, Organization

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• The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baby, Bird, Way

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wings, White, Links

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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