Like A Butterfly Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Love, Sweet, Butterfly

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.168

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

  Alan Lightman

  Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

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• My toughest fight was with my first wife.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Fighting

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

  Muhammad Ali

  Butterfly, Eye, Greatness

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• I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
  Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
  A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
  A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

  Rumi

  Wine, Butterfly, Light

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• Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Moving, Butterfly, Land

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• Happiness is like a butterfly.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Butterfly

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• For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Moving, Inspiration

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Butterfly

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• Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Butterfly, Differences

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

  Robert Genn

  Integrity, Butterfly, Winning

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• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Happiness, Spring, Butterfly

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Love is like a butterfly
  As soft and gentle as a sigh
  The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
  Love makes your heart feel strange inside
  It flutters like soft wings in flight
  Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Butterfly, Love Is

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

  Lynn Margulis

  Butterfly, Looks, Caterpillars

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• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  Niecy Nash

  Baby, Butterfly, Eyelashes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.

  Lee Trevino

  Butterfly, Land, Feet

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• True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.

  Ellen G. White

  Fashion, Butterfly, Simplicity

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• World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

  Nelly Sachs

  Children, Taken, Butterfly

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• I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

  William Faulkner

  Butterfly, Light, Air

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Butterfly, Mom And Daughter

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Summer, Butterfly, June

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Father, Butterfly, Thinking

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• She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Butterfly, Color, Wings

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Caleb's Crossing: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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