Butterfly Quotes

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

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• Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

  Ruth Brown

  Positive Thinking, Life Is Like, Thinking

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• I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love You, Self Love, Too Late

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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

  Lisa Kleypas

  Acceptance, Phases, Keep The Faith

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.20, Macmillan

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Flower, Self

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

  Zeenat Aman

  Heart, Positive Thinking, Wings

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• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Memories, Months

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Adversity, Destiny, Achieve

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• Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

  Amy Lowell

  Flower, Wings, Hours

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

  Wendy Mass

  Would Be, Changed, Ifs

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• Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Gentle, Love Is

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Thinking, Forever

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• 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

  Life, Change, Loneliness

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• The butterfly is a flying flower,
  The flower a tethered butterfly.

  Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

  Flower, Flying, Caterpillars

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  Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

  Candace Bushnell

  Love, Single, People

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• and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

  Ruskin Bond

  Beautiful, War, Stills

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Flower, Personal Growth

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• Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Wings, Awkward, Doe

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Liberty, Environment

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• 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

  Spiritual, Song, Stars

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "Why My Journey Of Grief Is So Like A Butterfly’s Metamorphosis" by Laurie Burrows Grad, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.

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