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Quote Left We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Quote Right
Quote Left Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Quote Right
Quote Left The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Quote Right
Quote Left Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee Quote Right
Quote Left Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Quote Right
Quote Left For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less common than the males. The moths breed exactly like all animals, the male fertilizes the female and the female lays the eggs. Now, if you take a female night moth----many naturalists have tried this experiment---the male moths will visit this female at night and they will come from hours away. From hours away! Just think! From a distance of several miles all these males sense the only female in the region. One looks for an explanation for this phenomenon but it is not easy. You must assume that they have a sense of smell of some sort like a hunting dog that can pick up and follow a semmingly imperceptible scent. Do you see? Nature abounds with such inexplicable things. But my argument is: if the female moths were as abundant as the males, the latter would not have such a highly developed sense of smell. They've acquired it only because they had to train themseleves to to have it. If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. And that also answers your question. Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. Quote Right
Quote Left No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul. This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. Quote Right
Quote Left The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity Quote Right
Quote Left The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'. Quote Right
Quote Left Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Quote Right
Quote Left Spin and die, To live again as butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Quote Right
Quote Left No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Quote Right
Quote Left What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 a butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left I would like to be a butterfly. Because nobody suspects the butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases, and pleases where it goes. Quote Right
Quote Left A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. Quote Right
Quote Left There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left You think of me just like a butterfly You wanna pin me to your wall so I can never fly. Just like a flower that you need to dry Caught between two books, squeeze me till I die Quote Right
Quote Left What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning. Quote Right
Quote Left Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. Quote Right
Quote Left ?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. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Butterfly

Quote Left It is the universe that moves the butterfly! Quote Right
Quote Left if one butterfly could flutter its wings to set molecules of air in motion, to move other molecules of air, to eventually start just one hurricane - just imagine what a legion of butterflies could achieve with their vibrations raising each other and all that is good in ‘being’ to higher levels to transform each other. Quote Right
Quote Left Whether one appreciates or depreciates a butterfly, One should know the actual fact, that – Ultimately – A butterfly is a butterfly…! Quote Right
Quote Left Ah butterfly, what dreams do you ply with your beautiful wings? —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords: nature, dream, dreams, flying) Quote Right
Quote Left It is the nature of loveliness to vanish, as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness, seek transcendence ... ('Flight' by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." - Lao Tzu Quote Right
Quote Left 'Time was like butterfly ahead so i decided to hoop along with my flaps, courage forgoing flaws' Quote Right
Quote Left a red butterfly stirred me from my crimson sheets- kissed my scarlet lips Quote Right
Quote Left By looking down at the Caterpillar will not change the fact that it is a Butterfly in process. Your cursing words can not kill the Kaleidoscope of butterflies hidden inside Her belly. Quote Right
Quote Left Swim against the current, be "weird". Be the butterfly in the midst of caterpillars. I've asked a question many times but have never gotten the correct answer, "What is weird?" Weird is befriending the friendless. Standing up to the worst jeers from the worst bullies. "Weird is unique". It's doing what no one else will because they are afraid to be seen by others as something different. "Normal" is just ununiqueness disguised as something beautiful. Be the star that lights the path for millions. Quote Right
Quote Left I love the "brushed kiss".... the "butterfly moment", when magic ignites a fire that can never go out... Quote Right
Quote Left I love the "brushed kiss".... the "butterfly moment", when magic ignites a fire that can never go out... Quote Right
Quote Left Wish I could float like a butterfly sting like a bee if I could i"d be Ali Quote Right
Quote Left p.s. your love is the butterfly I couldn't catch... Quote Right
Quote Left The cocooning of a butterfly The dormant dreams Of flying high Quote Right
Quote Left But the Grub becomes the Butterfly, the Spirit is you when it flys, a change of habit, new disguise, adventure time Tom-Tit ... Quote Right
Quote Left Like a butterfly I wish to be free,But i'm held down by the weight of the world Quote Right
Quote Left Once a butterfly always a butterfly. Quote Right

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