Butterfly words of wisdom

Butterflies Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old butterflies quotes, butterflies sayings, and butterflies proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Butterfly Quotes

The transformative power of butterflies has inspired many quotes. This page provides a sampling from authors, philosophers, scientists, and lovers of butterflies. Enjoy!

Just like the butterfly,
I too will awaken in my own time.
-thevintageangel.com

Butterflies are nature's angels.
They remind us what a gift it is to be alive.
-Robyn Nola

The butterfly said to the sun,
"They can't stop talking about my transformation.
I can only do it once in my lifetime.
If only they know they can do it at any time and in countless ways."
-Dodinsky

Advice from a Butterfly.
Let your true colors show.
Get out of your cocoon.
Take yourself lightly.
Look for the sweetness in life.
Take time to smell the flowers.
Catch a breeze.
We can't all be monarchs!
-YourTrueNature.com

Butterflies can't see their wings.
They can't see how truly beautiful they are,
but everyone else can.
People are like that as well.
-Unknown

When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness...
Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.
-Necole Stephens

How does one become a butterfly?
You have to want to learn to fly so much that you
Are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
-Unknown

Let go of the past
Trust the future
Embrace change
Come out of the cocoon
Unfurl your wings
Dare to get off the ground
Ride the breezes
Savor the flowers
Put on your brightest colors
Let your beauty show.
-Unknown

Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.
-Unknown

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
-Chuang Tzu

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

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond.
-Irish Blessing

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

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

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
-Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

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

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
-Maya Angelou

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.
-Lisa Genova, Still Alice

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.
-Gemma Malley, The Declaration

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
-Patch Adams

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.
-Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

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.
-Author Unknown

Love is like butterfly, beautiful and delicate... If you truly care for it, you'll do whatever you can to make it happy, even if that means letting it go.
-Scott Pemberton

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
-Henry David Thoreau

Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
-Kjell B. Sandved

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

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“When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind’s gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.”
― Avijeet Das

“A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies.”
― Matshona Dhilwayo

“It can’t be done,” they told the caterpillar. “It can,” replied the butterfly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“This caterpillar does not just simply grow wings
First, it must alter its mind; transform the very being of itself
It must climb the tallest tree, the highest mountain
Swim the deepest of oceans
Walk through the fiercest of flames
And then, if it chooses, this caterpillar can become a butterfly”
― Aubrey Moore, Butterfly Red Sky

“A butterfly's wings grow because a caterpillar dared to believe it could fly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We are like caterpillars, we die so we can be reborn in a higher state.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“An ambitious worm is better than a complacent butterfly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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