Top 100 Sayings About A Butterfly
#1. The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. 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
#3. I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi
#5. It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
Gabby Douglas
#6. The consciousness and life force do what they want ...
one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force ...
who can work it out?
Mooji
#7. If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. If you chase a butterfly, it will escape;
if you feed it, it will come.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. To Pimp a Butterfly is an extension of those albums.
Kendrick Lamar
#10. As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#11. To be judged of what you were is just unfair as a butterfly being judge while it was a capetillar
Hlovate
#12. From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
Anna Sui
#13. 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
#14. One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. Curiosity can be as dangerous as a butterfly hovering over a flame.
Nancy B. Brewer
#16. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#17. 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
#19. Love like the sun can't be held down or captured. Love has no weight nor depth, no height, no length, no matter. Love is like a spark of inspiration, the flittering touch of a butterfly's wing, a sudden, unexpected, ephemeral flash of lightning. Grab it when you can.
Chloe Thurlow
#20. A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever.
Baz Black
#21. 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
#22. A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Jeffrey Kluger
#23. Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
Harley King
#24. The metaphor of transformation deepens as we consider how a butterfly needs to struggle for its ability to fly. If the chrysalis is broken by someone in an attempt to help free the butterfly, its wings will be shriveled and immobile.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#25. I wanted a way back to swings and slides and simplicity. A way back to when a butterfly could cheer me up, and a series of puddles could make my day. A way back to a time when happiness wasn't something I had to search for ... it just was
Cora Carmack
#26. Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.
Dean Koontz
#27. The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.
Seth
#28. When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.
Edward Norton Lorenz
#29. Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.
Steve Aylett
#30. There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.
Victor Hugo
#31. Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return."
"I'm not a freaking butterfly.
Laini Taylor
#32. For what is better than love? Imagine a world without the sun, a world without the smile of a baby or the flight of a butterfly, all of which are manifestations of love. A world without love is not a world worth having
Alexandra McBrayer
#33. Weird? One day you're normal and the next, you're walking around with a butterfly attached to your back. Then Malice in Wonderland tries to squeeze my head off, and you're calling it weird. This is beyond weird. Crazy, fantastical even, but definitely not weird.
Kimberly Spencer
#34. 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
#35. Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious, it ceases to be of absorbing concern to scientists. Almost all the things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
Freeman Dyson
#36. Welhewan is charming us,' Sasha says in an unsure voice. 'It is trying to soothe us with its lullaby. Do not let yourself . . . Oh, a butterfly. Look how beautiful it is! No, don't look. The forest is making us happy, and we cannot let it.
Sarah Dalton
#37. If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed into a butterfly that she could fly.
Chirag Tulsiani
#39. Fuck me." I said it so softly a butterfly wouldn't have heard me. "Say it again. But this time, own it.
C.D. Reiss
#40. My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.
DeeDee Trotter
#41. I dreamed I was a butterfly. I didn't know if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a man." Lao-Tsu
John Isaac Jones
#42. You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
Jane Yolen
#43. 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
#44. Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Dennis Vickers
#45. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
Ruskin Bond
#46. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Eckhart Tolle
#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. I let go of my wings.
Not a nosoul. Not a butterfly.
A thousand years from now, even if I was never reborn, people would remember me. Ana Incarnate.
Jodi Meadows
#50. "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
#51. 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
#52. In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.
Barbara Kingsolver
#54. A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
Patrick Rothfuss
#55. Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo Neruda
#56. You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.
Chloe Thurlow
#57. Peace is a butterfly
Flying flower to flower
With a song in her heart
But a great love for the beauty
With a great purpose and duty.
Debasish Mridha
#58. 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
#59. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.
Gail Carriger
#60. 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
#61. The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.
Joel Sartore
#62. You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
T.A. Barron
#63. Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
Marian Phair
#64. Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
Ruskin Bond
#65. 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
#66. A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger.
Steven Aitchison
#67. We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.
John Assaraf
#68. Happiness is a butterfly that often eludes your grasp, then suddenly alights on your shoulder, sits for a spell and moves on.
Peggy Toney Horton
#69. True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.
Debasish Mridha
#70. I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses.
Susie Clevenger
#71. I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
Mark Twain
#72. My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Eric Idle
#73. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.
Crystal Woods
#74. Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly ...
Zhuangzi
#75. I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.
Janusz Korczak
#76. Caterpillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within.
Donovan
#77. Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?
Faraaz Kazi
#78. Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't ( ... ) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
Douglas Coupland
#79. The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca
#80. Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.
Max Lucado
#81. She did not know many beautiful animals that had sweet tempers, except perhaps butterflies. Then again, there wasn't enough to a butterfly to properly be called a temper. That options did an angry butterfly have, anyway? Stamping eylashed-sized feet? Flapping its wings in a sarcastic manner?
T. Kingfisher
#82. I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
Dan Howell
#83. Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar - saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
"Butterflies don't last," said Philomena solemnly.
Anya Allyn
#84. 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
#85. When you fall in love, your heart blooms like a flower and your soul transforms and transcends like a butterfly
Debasish Mridha
#86. Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
Zeenat Aman
#87. Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
Tim Walker
#89. A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.
Barry Eisler
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.
Joss Stirling
#93. 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
#94. Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
Ashley Bell
#95. 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
#96. That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.
Conrad Wesselhoeft
#97. A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterfly flapping its wings
may turn the tide miles apart!
Somali K Chakrabarti
#98. I felt in this new adventure I was rousing to life again. I was a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis, damp winged and trembling with expectation.
Deanna Raybourn
#99. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
#100. If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies
Howard Schultz
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