Top 1200 Like A Butterfly Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I'm not a social butterfly.

It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

Mahavishnu's drummer Billy Cobham was the best I'd ever heard. Not loud, that's not the secret - powerful as hell when he wanted to be - but 90 per cent of the time, he was just dancing with the drums, you know? Just like a butterfly, all over them.

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound like it's on fire,' he'd say. That's the kind of common ground that the best jazz and the best hip-hop have.

You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...

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

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

My parents have been incredibly supportive of me. They've always stood by me, whatever my decisions. When I was younger, I was like a butterfly flitting from one thing to the next - be it gymnastics, karate or piano lessons. They never forced me into anything.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'

I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message...that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

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

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.