Butterfly Quotes

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
Inspirational Happiness You Will Sit Down Alight Pursued Beyond Always Quietly May Just Which Your Grasp Butterfly
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature You Nothing Tells Caterpillar Going Butterfly
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
Time Enough Months Counts Moments Butterfly
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
World Master Caterpillar Calls End End Of The World 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. Richard Bach
Ignorance Injustice World Master Mark Caterpillar Calls Tragedy End End Of The World Depth Your Belief Butterfly
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? Zhuangzi
Dreams Man Sky Dreamed Dreaming Dreamt Around Am Wonder Being Then Who Flitting Now Butterfly
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Gary Zukav
Future Time Me Winter Darkness Pain Imagination Birth Something Gives Like Beyond Joyfully Withdrawal Glory Always Been Itself Unexpected Confines Bursting Forth Produces Special Barren Monarch Cocoon Butterfly Inconceivable
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. Drew Barrymore
Beautiful Ugly Everyone Out Like Graceful Loves Then Butterflies Butterfly Awkward Start
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Louie Schwartzberg
You Change Poets Could Caterpillar Greatest Always Been Artists Next Moment Butterfly Symbol Imagine
Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern. Edward Everett Hale
Life Great Joy My Life Partner Live Others Willow See Seeks Opening Concern How Loves Far Sweep Flight Eagle Butterfly
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
Time Natural Made Dust One Time More Wings He Talent Know Understood His Than Did Pattern Butterfly
It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!' Gabby Douglas
Me Focus Tough Something Like Look Shiny Very Goes Oh Butterfly
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Annie Besant
Death Man Snake Skin Other State Chrysalis Indeed Consists Immortal Outer Emerges Shakes Higher Part Another Passing Repeated Off Itself After Process Butterfly Consciousness
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Anna Pavlova
Happiness Success Thought Small Small Child Delights Wrong Soon Like Child Which Us Moment Brief Appears Brief Moment Away Butterfly
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. Imogene Coca
Satire People Try Trouble Smash Noisy Most Comedians Hammer Brash Essentially Use Who Butterfly
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. Jeffrey Kluger
Likely Because Quicker Deny Than Dislike Less Cockroach Species Butterfly Consciousness
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Joseph Conrad
Nature Man Will Finds Magnificent Dirt Never Still Heap His Little Mud Keep Butterfly
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. Joyce Brothers
Love Balance Other Finds Idealist Conformist Social Cynic Help Rebel Each Lives Butterfly
When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records. Kamasi Washington
Music Me People Vision Damn Mindset Out Records He Head Because Making His Expect Than Get Trying Different Wants Really Working Figure Butterfly Playing
I wasn't a social butterfly at all. Kate Bosworth
Social Butterfly
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis
Everybody Like Look Caterpillar Knows Anything Butterfly
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. Pierre Bonnard
Myself Year Young Wings Like Should Painters Butterfly Present
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Finger Touch Wing Never Your Butterfly
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
Dreams Man Dreaming Know Am Whether Then Now Butterfly
I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers. Aisling Bea
Love Shoes Giant Tops Platform Butterfly
Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. Andre Rieu
Together People Other House Built Ferrari Want Wanted Might Butterfly Designed
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