Tuesday, May 5, 2020

BUTTERFLIES - QUOTES and PICTURES




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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. - Maya Angelou



I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.  -  Drew Barrymore 



There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.  -  R. Buckminster Fuller 

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Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you. - Ruth Brown 



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



A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. -  Lisa Kleypas 



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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 




Butterflies are self propelled flowers. -  Robert A. Heinlein 




The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore 



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Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. -  Zeenat Aman 




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 




What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach 



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



We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. - Carl Sagan 



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


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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.  -  Charles Dickens 




We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. - Friedrich Nietzsche 




The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.  -  George Carlin 


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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.  -  Henry David Thoreau 



Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. - Candace Bushnell 



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

Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun 



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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali 




Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. - Kjell Bloch Sandved 




Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  -  Hans Christian Andersen 



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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 




Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.  -  Robert Frost 




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

Joyce Kilmer 



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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.  -  Elizabeth Lesser 



Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.  -  Dolly Parton 





With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
A thousand times hovering round;
But round himself, all tender like gold,
The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

Heinrich Heine 





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



So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. - William Shakespeare 



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





Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now 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.  -   Zhuangzi 



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