Become A Butterfly Quotes

#1. I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die.

Rumi

#2. 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

#3. How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

#4. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was, and there was only ever the butterfly.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#5. You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.

Chloe Thurlow

#6. If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. 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

#8. If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

Karel Capek

#10. I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

Daphne Du Maurier

#11. There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Ellen Bass

#12. 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

#13. It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

John Harricharan

#14. Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

Evan Esar

#15. The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly's wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.

Tricia Stirling

#16. And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass.

Ruth Downie

#17. People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

Drew Barrymore

#18. Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.

Italo Calvino

#20. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. 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

#21. He's just a man," said Paul. "No matter what The Sun says about him."
"He makes miracles. Lightning in a glass bottle. Voices in a copper wire. What kind of a man can do that?"
"A rich one.)

Graham Moore

#22. Maybe the point isn't whether or not you become a moth or a butterfly. Maybe the point is that, either way, you've got wings.

Autumn Doughton

#23. 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.

A.A. Milne

#24. O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

Dante Alighieri

#25. It's the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you'd have been the same anywhere else.'( ... )'If I ever leave this place' - I swallow - 'I'll make sure I'm better here first.

Markus Zusak

#26. Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ...

Louisa May Alcott

#27. 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

#28. Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.

Ryan Winfield

#29. In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...

Mahmoud Darwish