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"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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2/14/14

Quotes on BUTTERFLIES


Butterfly Quotes


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"A butterfly has always been viewed to represent endurance, change, hope, and life. From being a cute little caterpillar to being a beautiful butterfly, we always see there's good in change, be it of appearance or of environment. Relatively, butterfly's lighter than a caterpillar, that is why, despite of its delicate wings, it can fly." ~Jose Mari Dayto Casis

"A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam ... and for a brief moment it's glory and beauty belong to our world. But then it flies on again, and although we wish it could have stayed, we are so thankful to have seen it at all." ~Anon

"And the case of butterflies so rich it looks as if all summer settled there and died." ~Philip Larkin, "Autumn"

"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


"BLESSINGS are like butterflies. You can't force them to land on you, but when they do your heart lights up with joy!" ~Eileen Dielesen, the "Woman with a Dream"

"Blue tiger butterflies - are spectacular native butterflies that perform mass migration creating an incredible display when thousands are on the move." ~Gardening Australia

"Butterfly scoots and dances until death; then rests - and the last hope dies." ~P. A. Shaaz 

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers." ~R.H. Heinlein

"Butterflies don't know the colour of their wings, but human eyes know how beautiful they are. Likewise, you don't know how good you really are, but others can see that you are special." ~Anon

"Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures." ~Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984), British novelist. 


"Don't chase the butterfly. Mend your garden, let the butterfly come." ~5d Truth


"...every caterpillar has to rest to become a butterfly and you’ll soon find your wings again. In the mean time, let your Angels wrap you in theirs. You are so loved." ~Anna Taylor

"I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew." ~Lynn Redgrave


"Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee." ~Muhammad Alike

"God changes caterpillars to butterflies, sand into pearls and coals into diamonds using time and pressure. He is working on you too." ~FB, Treasures from Heaven

"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


"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

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~Anonymous


"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

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


"I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." ~Rene Descartes

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

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." ~Anon

"In a world full of caterpillars it takes courage to be a butterfly. It takes you knowing that as long as breathe you deserve to fly." ~SC Lourie

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop." ~Vita Sackville-West — Taken at Orange Cook Park last 26 December 2010.

"It's only when the caterpillar dies that the butterfly flies." ~Kim Whiting

"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Anderson

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." ~Anon on Proverb

"Let's fly to the blue sky like a lovely butterfly and remove the pain of all mothers. Asking God to grant a healthy, wealthy, and happy life to all mothers in the world." ~Roya Piragar

“Like a butterfly that is drawn to the beauty and scent of a flower, a positive attitude will draw people towards you.” ~DHANG GLORIANE


"Like the butterfly, I have the strength and faith to believe that in time I will emerge from my cocoon...transformed." ~A Better Me

"Look at flowers, butterflies, trees and children with the eyes of compassion. Compassion will change your life and make it wonderful." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet become something beautiful." ~Anon


“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.” ~Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

"The beauty of a garden is seen in the presence of yet another creature that possesses both beauty and elegance. Butterflies in a garden of colourful flowers make our surrounding a true paradise." ~Jose Noel Morales

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"The buttterfly does not look back at the caterpillar in shame, just as you should not look back at your past in shame. Your past was part of your own transformation." ~Anthony Gucciardi


"The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower a tethered butterfly." ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

"The butterfly often forgets it was once a butterfly." ~Swedish Proverb

"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." ~George Carlin

"The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet." ~Paul Erlich

"The green grass and the happy skies court the fluttering butterflies." ~Astrid Alauda

"The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the exquisite 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


"The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle." ~Janet Dickens

"There comes a point when you know, without doubt, without hesitation, that you cannot go back to your old life. The butterfly can never go back to being a caterpillar. You might miss how things once were, but you cannot go back and also have a new life with new opportunities. So, spread your wings and soar free." ~Brad Simkins

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." ~Buckminster Fuller

"There is so much pain in letting go of pain, watching scars turn into butterflies before they fly away." ~Christy Ann Martine

"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods." ~ Edith Wharton


"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

"To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree - after a year and a thousand miles ..." ~Jonathan L. Huie

"Today is your day to dance lightly with life. Sing wild songs of adventure. Invite rainbows and butterflies out to play. Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis." ~LeeAnn Taylor

"We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." ~Gerald Brenan


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

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

"We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies." ~John Marsden


"What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?" ~Roy Rogers

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."~Richard Bach

"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

"When you allow life to happen, it will unfold its beauty like a newborn butterfly’s wings; today is the day to take flight and sail on the winds of love." ~Robert Clancy

"When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings." ~Anon


My Photo taken on top of Botanical Garden at Mount Annan 2021

"You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder." ~Author Unknown

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“I want to be like a caterpillar. Eat a lot. Sleep for a while. Wake up beautiful.” ~Anon "It was the bumblebee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur." ~Meridel Le Sueur
"Rest your wings. You are enough." ~Anon
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." ~Bradley Millar

"The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame: The first one went closer and said, 'I know about love'. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said, 'I know how love's fire can burn'. The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed. He alone knows what true love is." ~Attar of Nishapur

‪"Poems are like butterflies - coming occasionally, landing briefly, often a wonder." ~Jayna Forrest‬

"Your time as a caterpillar has expired. Your wings are ready." ~@treeowl

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