50 Butterfly Quotes (Best Ever!)
Looking for the very best butterfly quotes? These 50 epic butterfly quotes will show you what true wisdom is all about.
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Let’s chat about butterfly quotes.
The following butterfly quotes will definitely make you think and expand your mind.
These butterfly quotes will also give you a different perspective on life.
Let me share with you the very best butterfly quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 butterfly quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
BUTTERFLY QUOTES
1 – 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. J. Richard Lessor
2 – 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. Emme Rollins
3 – Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. Stephanie Marshall
4 – You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process. Rupi Kaur
5 – We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
6 – When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness…Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. Necole Stephens
7- Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. Deborah Chaskin
8 – Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. Kjell B. Sandved
9 – The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. Guillermo del Toro
10 – Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. Stephanie Marshall
BUTTERFLY QUOTES
11 – Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. Cornelia Funke
12 – When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness… Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. Necole Stephens
13 – Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well. Naya Rivera
14 – 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. William Stafford
15 – 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
16 -There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller
17- Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. Kendrick Lamar
18 – If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies. Wendy Mass
19 – 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
20 – As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. Joseph B. Wirthlin
BUTTERFLY QUOTES
21 – I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. John Keats
22 – How does one become a butterfly? You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. Trina Paulus
23 – A butterfly symbolizes acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. Lisa Kleypas
24 – Love is like a butterfly, beautiful and delicate… If you truly care for it, you’ll do whatever you can to make it happy, even if that means letting it go. Scott Pemberton
25 – A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. Mandy Hale
26 – Just when the caterpillar thought “I am incapable of moving,” it became a butterfly. Annette Thomas
27- 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. Dean Jackson
28 – When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly. Mehmet Murat Ildan
29 – A butterfly always reminds us that there is always beauty at the end of all the pain.
30 – The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun
BUTTERFLY QUOTES
31 – Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali
32 – Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly. Peta Kelly
33 – Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come. Mario Quintana
34 – You’ve gotta be a caterpillar before you are a butterfly. Problem is, most people aren’t willing to be a caterpillar.
35 – Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. Jesse Taylor
36 – One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller
37- The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle. Janet Dickens
38 – 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. Emme Rollins
39 – When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. Patch Adams
40 – Butterflies, they are like dream flowers, childhood dreams, which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine.
BUTTERFLY QUOTES
41 – The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
42 – Butterflies are self-propelled flowers. Robert A. Heinlein
43 – We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. Carl Sagan
44 – May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun and find your shoulder to light on, to bring you luck, happiness and riches Today, tomorrow and beyond. Irish Blessing
45 – She is like a butterfly; beautiful to look at but hard to catch. Nikki Rowe
46 – Be like a butterfly and a flower—beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle. Jarod Kintz
47- Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
48 – She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days.
Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn’t mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that. Lisa Genova
49 – 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? Chuang Tzu
50 – Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.
BONUS: In nature, a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. Anton Chekhov
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Frances Vidakovic
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