Stay near me – do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! (To A Butterfly)
Butterfly Quotes
Heading into the future is a little like a caterpillar entering a cocoon. The caterpillar doesn’t know that he’ll come out a butterfly. All he knows is that he’s alone, it’s dark, and it’s a little scary.
Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Here’s an example from A Butterfly; That on a rough, hard rock Happy can lie; Friendless and all alone On this unsweetened stone. Now let my bed be hard, No care take I; I’ll make my joy like this Small Butterfly; Whose happy heart has power To make a stone a flower.
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything – that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if […]
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.
I remembered one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the bark of the tree, just as the butterfly was making a hole in the case and preparing to come out. I waited a while, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent over it and breathed on it to warm […]
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam And for a brief moment, its glory and beauty belong to our World. But then it flies on again And though we wish it could have stayed, We feel so lucky to have seen it.
