My Butterfly Quotes

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

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.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

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.

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "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.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

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

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

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.

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

The butterfly went to heaven and became a butterfly necktie.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

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

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

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

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

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

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.