Butterflies

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. – R.H. Heinlein

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

Butterflies dot springtime with flitting airy kisses. – Terri Guillemets, “Spring flight & grounding,” 2014

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. – Jeffrey Glassberg

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

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. – Author Unknown

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

[N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

And to my thinking as a lover of life, butterflies, soap-bubbles, and whatever is of their kind among men, know most of happiness. To see these light, foolish, delicate, mobile little souls flitting aboutâ€”that moveth Zarathustra to tears and to song. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844â€“1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Author Unknown

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

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. – Deborah Chaskin