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Meaningful Quotes about Butterflies
Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases
and it pleases wherever it goes.
Author Unknown
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
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
R.H. Heinlein
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush. Hold it too
loose, it'll fly.
Author Unknown
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and
tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master
calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then
morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes
himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know
itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
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
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it
was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine
happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly
resembles another.
Herman Hesse
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a
butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and
fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge
Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're
mentally ready and eager.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Chuang Tzu
Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast
when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches
into a condor.
Billy Elmer
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly.But with
humans it is the other way around:a lovely butterfly turns into a
repulsive caterpillar.
Anton Chekhov
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled
there and died.
Philip Larkin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes
it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou |
