Quotes and Sayings about Butterflies

Quotes and Sayings about Butterflies

Butterflies, delicate creatures of the air, captivate us with their grace and beauty. Their colorful wings carry them effortlessly through the skies, symbolizing the lightness of being. Yet, their transformation from a humble caterpillar to a magnificent butterfly also shows us the power of change and metamorphosis. When I see a butterfly, I feel hope and joy in my heart, as they remind me that life always holds opportunities for growth and beauty.

I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction. After all, the most minor event, even a butterfly flapping its wings, can change everything.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 3 Episode 16

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness Patience & Endurance

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

The Butterfly Effect

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Even the most beautiful butterfly becomes a beast in the cage full of hyenas

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He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...
he was a beautiful butterfly!

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Butterflies are just worms that can chase you.

Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon - Season 4 Episode 7

A butterfly flutters its wings in Malaysia and the changes in air currents cause a hurricane in Florida. I love that idea. That even one tiny action can create an enormous effect.

Emma Scott in The Butterfly Project

I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.

Wilma Rudolph

Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

Muhammad Ali

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Who feeds a hungry animal, feeds his own soul.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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There are no strange creatures, only blinkered people.

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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

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Love Money Animals Dogs

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

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The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

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It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

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Failures & Mistakes Flying

People ask me if I could fly. I said: 'Yeah - for a little while.'

Michael Jordan

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If you want to fly, you have to let go what pulls you down.

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Ambition Flying Letting go

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Flying is not merely some crude, mechanical process. It is a delicate art. Purely aesthetic. Poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it.

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If a bird doesn't dare to fly, it'll never know it lives in a cage.

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"Momentum," She repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run."

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One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

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Orville Wright

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Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.

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Solitude & Loneliness

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

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You don't build a great castle just all at once.

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You can't change what people are, without destroying who they were.

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Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

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One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

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On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.

That night he had a stomach ache.

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Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

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I actually enjoyed being alone, solitude allowed me to think about important things.

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Solitude & Loneliness

I once read that you fell in love like how you fell asleep: slowly at first and then all at once.

Emma Scott in The Butterfly Project

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Wasn't love a kind of chaos theory? One small look, one smile or one word could alter the course of a life forever.

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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Motivation Fighting

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

Muhammad Ali

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Ambition Training

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