Butterfly Quotes
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![Ruskin Bond](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1630159042i/46603._UY200_CR37,0,200,200_.jpg)
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Scenes from a Writer's Life
― Scenes from a Writer's Life
![Sanober Khan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1464976494i/8023620._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don't know, if you will ever come back.”
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and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don't know, if you will ever come back.”
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“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
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![Gemma Malley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1328987279i/777173.jpg)
“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”
― The Declaration
― The Declaration
![Ivan Turgenev](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446625i/410680._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“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?”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
![Cornelia Funke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437000100i/15873._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”
― The Thief Lord
― The Thief Lord
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega")”
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![Emme Rollins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1447132793i/7144570._CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Dear Rockstar
― Dear Rockstar
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal. (“I seek you”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“The butterfly's wing beat of love can engender a mystical attraction in the neural meanders of our mind and generate emotional torments with a single stroke. ("I seek you")”
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![Giordano Bruno](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1286578931i/61876._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”
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![Trina Paulus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1290062643i/55572._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'
'You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.
'Yes and No,' he answered.
'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.”
― Hope for the Flowers
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'
'You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.
'Yes and No,' he answered.
'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.”
― Hope for the Flowers
![Katerina Stoykova Klemer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679331839i/3026646._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
― The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
Catch the air
around the butterfly.”
― The Air Around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата
![Amit Ray](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1660031342i/492884._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.”
― Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
― Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson”
― The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
― The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Crystal Woods](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454813877i/8423205.jpg)
“When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.”
― Write like no one is reading 3
― Write like no one is reading 3
![Jeanette LeBlanc](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629047144i/10770542._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell. But still, you will survive the transformation (over and over again) and you will fly. Remember this when it hurts the most. This is the metamorphosis, the going down to liquid, and the rising again. It’s no joke – but damn, it’s one hell of a journey.”
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![Marie Lu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285032806i/4342215._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.”
― The Young Elites
― The Young Elites
![William Stafford](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267404880i/40274._CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.”
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I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.”
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“A beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different from insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature — human or not human.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.”
― Stigma
― Stigma
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