Butterfly Quotes

A butterfly's grace has inspired artists to paint... the shutterbugs to capture its vibrant colors... and nature enthusiasts are delighted just being around them. Another form of art that's inspired the butterfly way is writing... and here we have plenty of butterfly quotes.

A butterfly's journey where it transforms from a tiny egg to a voracious caterpillar, from pupa to an adult full-grown butterfly is simply awe-inspiring. For me, witnessing and studying these stages in the lifespan of a butterfly has been a magical experience. It's surprising how this delicate transition survives the odds of nature. Here, I've composed and compiled a few butterfly quotes that will serve as an inspiration to all of us in our journey called life.

Butterfly Quotes by Me

☀ A butterfly is a miracle, A divine creation that fleets, After propelling the caterpillar within, An array of predators he cheats! ☀ Caterpillars stay in oblivion so they can transform into beautiful butterflies. ☀ A caterpillar is a butterfly in disguise! ☀ Butterflies are caterpillars that fight back and come off with 'flying colors'. ☀ God bestowed upon nature a beautiful bounty of butterflies to complete his picture-perfect scape.

Famous Caterpillar & Butterfly Quotes

☀ Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. ~ Stephanie Marshall ☀ A caterpillar, after its deep slumber, 'wakes up to reality' to realize, that truth is not always bitter after all! ~ Manali Oak ☀ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ~ Bradley Millar ☀ "How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. Orange Butterfly "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~ Trina Paulus ☀ Butterflies... flowers that fly and all but sing. ~ Robert Frost ☀ The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower a tethered butterfly. ~ Ponce Denis ☀ I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~ Charles Dickens ☀ Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. ~ Author unknown ☀ The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~ George Carlin ☀ Butterflies are graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable. Butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ☀ A butterfly says, "The caterpillar-me is history, my metamorphosis, a mystery, and today... today is a present, my struggle gifted me." ~ Manali Oak ☀ Butterflies, they are like dream flowers, childhood dreams, which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine. Air and angels.. ☀ "Although trapped in a cocoon, I told myself, "No cocooning now; it's time to get out into the open. And I broke out of my small world to enter into the bigger one... phew... I found, the world's a bigger cocoon. ~ Manali Oak ☀ "An exchange of thought between a caterpillar and a butterfly: Butterfly: The change you see in what I was and what I am is due to what I did when I was you. I made change happen! I became the change. Caterpillar: Don't be so proud of yourself, I am there and will always be, to remind you of your past. You are inspiring, but I am the inspiration. They look AT you, they look UP TO me. ~ Manali Oak

Inspirational Butterfly Quotes

☀ And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, at rest. ~ John Grey ☀ We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~ Maya Angelou ☀ 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 again, and though we wish it could have stayed... We feel lucky to have seen it. ☀ I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~ Chuang Tzu ☀ I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, where roses and lilies and violets meet. ☀ 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 ☀ Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better. ~ Movie, A Bug's Life. ☀ Trust the process. ☀ Don't quit before the miracle happens. ☀ A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ~ Andre Gide ☀ Miracles come in all shapes and sizes and happen to those who believe. ☀ What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. ~ Richard Bach ☀ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller ☀ Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ☀ We crush the caterpillars then complain there are no butterflies. ☀ The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore ☀ If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~ Author Unknown ☀ I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. ~ William Stafford. ☀ "Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Anderson. ☀ To me books on butterflies or baseball are more legitimate in terms of thinking about business strategy issues. ~ Tom Peters ☀ What would a butterfly quote, on looking in the mirror? It would say, "the adventure was worth it!" ~ Manali Oak." ☀ "They say, "Only in dreams men are truly free, What does a butterfly dream about? - It's already free!" ~ Scholasticus K

I am sure these butterfly quotes have helped you explore a new dimension of these celestial 'colored petals'!