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

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Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

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Insects
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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested. – Elizabeth Goudge

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Faith
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We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan

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

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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 about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and to song. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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

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