Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 473 authors

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… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in… — Roger Tory Peterson
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. — Rick Warren
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
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… — Zhuangzi
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars… — Thomas Berry
I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves. — Drew Barrymore
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a… — Dean Koontz
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. — Roger Tory Peterson
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? — Alexander Pope
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his… — Rajneesh
My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation. — Larry Mize
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… — Juliette Adam
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human… — Ellen Bass
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space,… — Marshall Savage
You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when… — Charles Darwin
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or… — Zhuangzi
The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly — Timothy Leary

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