Like A Butterfly Quotes

#1. Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS!

John Green

#2. She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.

Nikki Rowe

#3. We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

Drew Bundini Brown

#4. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's

Erotic Storm

#5. I did not seek love with Thomas, but I did not resist it. And now I am trapped in desire like a butterfly with its feet in honey, and the more I struggle, the deeper I sink.

Philippa Gregory

#6. 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

#7. You look like a butterfly that's just flown in from the garden, Hunt said softly.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. 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

#9. Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.

Debasish Mridha

#10. 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

#11. Dream is like a butterfly. You have to chase it to discover worlds you never knew existed.

Vinita Kinra

#12. Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob Bennett." - Laylla Jonson (Beneath the Blossom Tree)

L.B. Malpass

#13. Liraz may have captured Ziri's soul like a butterfly in a bottle, but that was only a formality. It was already hers.
And, clearly, judging by the state of her laugh-sobbing in Karou's arms, hers was his, too.

Laini Taylor

#14. Live like a butterfly; transform yourself to see only beauty.

Debasish Mridha

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

Joyce Kilmer

#16. If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Lynn Margulis

#18. Life without love is like a bird without feathers. Life without love is like a butterfly without wings it's the saddest of things.
"In this life I can live without many things love is not on that list

Charles W. Warner

#19. Mandelion spread itself like a butterfly of brick and slate.

Frances Hardinge

#20. Happiness is like a butterfly ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#21. Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Muhammad Ali

#23. I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

Jamie Redknapp

#25. A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic.
You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.

Sarah Cross

#26. I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

Si Robertson

#27. And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

Ian Fleming

#28. She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. Love is like a butterfly - chase it and it will fly away. Be still and be you and it will come and rest upon your skin where it feels safe and welcome.

Toni Sorenson

#30. Everything comes easily to Sebastian, don't you know? He drifts because of it - drifts from person to person, thing to thing, gadding about like a butterfly.

Courtney Milan

#31. Hope is like a butterfly that alights gently in your heart.

Chrissie Anthony

#32. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Emme Rollins

#33. Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Philip Pullman

#34. When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

#35. I embraced that hope for a moment, grabbed onto it with both hands, and held it close like the rare treasure it was. Then I let go of it, let it float away like a butterfly on a bright day, because the darkest part of the night was yet to come, and there was no place for it here.

Jennifer Estep

#36. When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors

Diane Lee Wilson

#37. Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#38. Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white orchid blushing pink.

Jarod Kintz

#39. Float like a butterfly, sting like a unicorn ;)

T.J. Klune

#40. 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

#41. Now I'm floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero

Katy Perry

#42. One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#43. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#44. 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

#45. To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that

Daniel Handler

#46. 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

#47. A dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't it strange? Gloom and decay - like brightness and life.

Ivan Turgenev

#48. To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you.

Debasish Mridha

#49. 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

#50. A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Pablo Neruda

#52. Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.

Kellie Elmore

#53. Goodbye, Ellie Edson. It's been fun." "Fun Ellie is dead. All that's left is broke-and-alone Ellie," I teased. Tyler stopped. "She's not dead. Just transitioning. Like a butterfly." "That's deep, Maddox." "I've been deeper," he said with a smirk,

Jamie McGuire

#54. I literally melted. Seriously, how was I going to not go for this guy?
"May I?" he asked. Somehow I went from puddle on the floor to freaking out school girl. My insides were fluttering like a butterfly garden.

Jessica Florence

#55. True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

Debasish Mridha

#56. I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

Carine Roitfeld

#57. Like a butterfly burrowing from its chrysalis, so shall you find your wings, if you only take the time to find yourself.

L.J. Vanier

#58. Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Drew Barrymore

#59. You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.

Pippa DaCosta

#60. Gracefully and gratefully accept the changes in our lives as casually and flexibly like a butterfly does." ~ Angelica Hopes, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Angelica Hopes

#61. We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.

Steven Pressfield

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

Ruth Brown

#63. The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function.
Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.

Jonathan Stroud

#64. 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

#65. When you fall in love, your heart blooms like a flower and your soul transforms and transcends like a butterfly

Debasish Mridha

#66. Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can't hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn't me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.

Julie Farrell

#67. Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

Margaret Atwood

#68. She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.

Joss Stirling

#69. She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

Jerry Spinelli

#70. It's a Magril - a bird that's native to Gillikin Country. It spends half its life as a beetle, and when it's an adult, it goes to sleep for a year and wakes up as this majestic creature."
"Kind of like a butterfly."
"Kind of like you," he said.

Danielle Paige

#71. Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#72. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#74. In flew influence, and out fluttered humility. Be like a butterfly and a flower - beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle.

Jarod Kintz

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

Cornelia Funke

#76. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#77. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

Stefan Emunds

#78. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

#79. And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

Wendy Mass

#80. I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.

Daryl Hannah

#81. Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Willie Stargell

#82. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.

Ellen Hopkins

#83. I like you ... "I got up on my toes to get in his face, "a lot".
"You haven't made that a secret."
"Maybe I should start doing that," I retorted ...
"Butterfly, advice. Don't start playin' new games when you're already winnin' the one you're in.

Kristen Ashley

#84. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

Ellen Hopkins

#85. Ugh," she muttered, tugging his hair. "Your are so pretty. Like delicate butterfly beneath my boot."
"Ugh, " he replied, pulling one of her own curls, which were thick and coarse. "You are so mad. Like a rabid hound that needs to be put down.

Kiersten White

#86. I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#87. Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Haruki Murakami

#88. When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message ... that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

Mary Meeker

#89. Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.

Jennifer McMahon

#90. You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly.

Shauna Niequist

#91. 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

#92. Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

Charles Gounod

#93. I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy

Lex Martin

#94. Zoya stared up at Nina in wonder. "You're alive," she said. Her gaze slid to Matthias, thrashing like the biggest, angriest butterfly ever pinned to a page. "And you've made a new friend.

Leigh Bardugo

#95. But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

Tabitha Suzuma

#96. She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

Gayle Forman

#97. I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty.

Leeza Donatella

#98. The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

Alexey Brodovitch

#99. You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

Chuck Jones

#100. Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

Clive Ponting