To Become A Butterfly Quotes

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

Chloe Thurlow

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 8. EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. 9. The COMMANDER stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.

Sun Tzu

#7. Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Timothy Keller

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Stephen G. Post

#10. And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.

Marya Hornbacher

#11. "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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Drew Barrymore

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

John Harricharan

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Noam Chomsky

#21. 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

#22. I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

George Burns

#23. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

Clint Eastwood

#26. 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

#27. I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty.

Theodore Dreiser

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Met men who made me laugh, men who made me think, men who made me cum. But I never met another man who made my heart leap and had me hoping for forever. Two chances at love in one lifetime, it seemed, were the maximum any one person got. During my bitter moments, it

Anonymous

#32. The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Alfred De Musset

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

Mahmoud Darwish