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And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now. — Wendy Mass

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory
the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name. — Laura Miller

I loved you too much to lose you twice. — Laura Miller

She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her. — Joss Stirling

And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. — Ruskin Bond

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar? — Cornelia Funke

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems. — Julia Butterfly Hill

I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty. — Leeza Donatella

the butterfly of Christmastown? — Ann Gelder

Then the rudder and elevator finally come to life, swinging her nose up, and she's left the earth - arrow straight. A butterfly after all. — Paula McLain

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope

Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly — Gayle Forman

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye. — Elton John

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. — Guillermo Del Toro

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation. — Anne Lamott

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul. — Juliette Adam

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. — Marianne Moore

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I dreamed I was a butterfly. I didn't know if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a man." Lao-Tsu — John Isaac Jones

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them — Charles Gounod

A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger. — Steven Aitchison

A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow. — Kaiylah Muhammad

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy

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

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan

Hope is like a butterfly that alights gently in your heart. — Chrissie Anthony

If you chase a butterfly, it will escape;
if you feed it, it will come. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS! — John Green

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you. — Tama J. Kieves

I don't really watch movies. I don't own a TV. — Julia Butterfly Hill

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. — Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine. — Johnny Rich

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

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. — Victor Hugo

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir

When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors — Diane Lee Wilson

Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach. — Marcus O'Sullivan

I have butterflies in my stomach. — Zane

See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings. — Mary Alice Monroe

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation. — Debasish Mridha

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly. — Peter S. Beagle

I am a flower on the tree we call the universe. My mind is dancing with joy like butterfly. — Debasish Mridha

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space. — Damien Hirst

MAke sure she can handle a gun, please."
I whacked him on the arm.
"Hmm, did a butterfly just land on me? — Sherry Gammon

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

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise. — Franklin P. Adams

She felt his glances, like butterfly wings, resting and then fluttering away. — Tracy Brogan

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. — Cornelia Funke

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

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars — Timothy Leary

Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. — Anne Lamott

When you fall in love, your heart blooms like a flower and your soul transforms and transcends like a butterfly — Debasish Mridha

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

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

...a cyclamen that looks like a flight of butterflies, frozen for a single, exquisite moment in the white heart of Time... — Beverley Nichols

Curiosity can be as dangerous as a butterfly hovering over a flame. — Nancy B. Brewer

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard

Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties. — Debasish Mridha

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. — Jimi Hendrix

Live like a butterfly; transform yourself to see only beauty. — Debasish Mridha

The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly. — Rabindranath Tagore

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. — Hans Christian Andersen

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower! — Frederick Lenz

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies. — Nicole Kidman

I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass. — Marie Lu

Patience with the caterpillar is patience with the butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change — Nancy S. Mure

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly — Harry Turtledove

Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together. — Matsuo Basho

That tendency ... to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic. — John Galsworthy

A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever. — Baz Black

Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat. — Tom Cardamone

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen

I had the strange desire for a giant butterfly net to catch whatever was out there, as if it could be captured so easily. — Courtney King Walker

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? — Alexander Pope

I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses. — Susie Clevenger

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art. — Claude Simon

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. — Laura Miller

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? — Dante Alighieri

Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved. — Fazil Iskander

If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly. — John Harricharan

In whose wonder do you get to participate today? — Mary Anne Radmacher

Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked, Rafael said. — Rose Christo

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M Valente

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky. — Janice Mirikitani

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony De Mello

Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly, — Marian Phair

On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia

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

The quivering
of Psyche's butterflies. — Hilda Doolittle

Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder. — Max Lucado