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. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. - Rene Descartes
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. - Ernest Hemingway
I want to fly like a butterfly around this beautiful world, till the last frame of my life and the last click of my heart. - Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life. - Debasish Mridha
Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties. - Debasish Mridha
Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity. - T.S. Eliot
Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move. - V.S. Atbay
It can’t be done, they told the caterpillar. It can, replied the butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? - Zhuangzi
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. - Anna Pavlova
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, My life has just begun. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect. - Louise Mullins
A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha
A butterfly has landed on a patch of milk parsley. Wings held vertically so it’s not going anywhere - for the time being. Once he would have leant across and seized it. Now he’ll let it fly. - Lucille Turner
a girl should be a butterfly, beautiful,delicate, but hard to catch - my friend
Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. - Anonymous
Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's. - Jazz Feylynn
Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. - Shannon Hale
Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega") - Erik Pevernagie
Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms her feet. - Puline Fisk
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. - Maya Angelou
Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight. - R.H. Peat
The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly - Ankala V Subbarao
The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. - George Carlin
Peace is in selfless caringPeace is in true understanding Peace is in undeserved kindnessPeace is in joyful forgiveness Peace is in innocent trustPeace is in becoming justPeace is in a dancing butterfly Peace is in a clear starry skyPeace is a child's loving kissPeace is a life's pure bliss - Debasish Mridha
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity. - Julie Farrell
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maybe it will be a daisy, a white butterfly, a snowflake which transforms your life. - Marty Rubin
The caterpillar does not boast to the world of its plans; it just shows up a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. - Giordano Bruno
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums. - Jeremiah Walton
I am a flower on the tree we call the universe. My mind is dancing with joy like butterfly. - Debasish Mridha
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. - Gabriel García Márquez
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. - Unknown
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back. - Sanober Khan
When you fall in love, your heart blooms like a flower and your soul transforms and transcends like a butterfly - Debasish Mridha
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. - Richard Bach
Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit. - Kellie Elmore
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali
People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. - Tanya Huff
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - Butterfly Weeds - Laura Miller
A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It’s a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It’s not an instant transformation. - Rohvannyn Shaw
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. - Andre Gide
Live like a butterfly; transform yourself to see only beauty. - Debasish Mridha
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner...... - Norah Lofts
You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee. - Solange nicole
If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
She is like a butterfly, Beautiful to look at But hard to catch. - Nikki Rowe
You are my ground and you are my rainbow. You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. You are the start of my journeys and always my destination. You are my home - the place to which I always return. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation. - Debasish Mridha
To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you. - Debasish Mridha
Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. - Harley King
Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails. - Vinita Kinra
Peace is a butterfly Flying flower to flowerWith a song in her heartBut a great love for the beautyWith a great purpose and duty. - Debasish Mridha
If you chase a butterfly, it will escape;if you feed it, it will come. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When I see a dancing butterfly, When I see a half blooming flower,Their eager wish to make this world happy,My mind dances with joy,My soul emerges in happiness. - Debasish Mridha
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
I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings. - Oceangirlie14
Be a fairy. Dance like a butterfly. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing. - Kemi Sogunle
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts - Rory Miller
A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly. - Sabrina Newby
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. 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
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the rest of the world calls butterfly. Richard BachFrom Gifts of the Unknown: Using Extraordinary Experiences to Cope W/ Loss & Change - Louis E. Lagrand
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge? - Lorna Jackie Wilson
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly. - Dan Howell