Where there are no caterpillars there are no butterflies.

“It can’t be done,” they told the caterpillar. “It can,” replied the butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

— Rick Warren

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation…

— George Vaillant

“Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Stephanie Pace Marshall

“A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Butterflies have often been used as a metaphor for freedom. Turning every single hobby into a hustle is akin to walking around with a…

— Anne-Laure Le Cunff

“Butterflies and moths to the flame --- and we are the flame”

— Christina M. Ward

“Every morning I wake up with butterflies, just knowing I get to love you another day.”

— Rita A. Gordon

“We are like caterpillars, we die so we can be reborn in a higher state.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Using time, pressure and patience, the universe gradually changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds. You’re being worked on too,…

— The Angel Affect