Trina Paulus Quotes & Sayings

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers. — Trina Paulus

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life. — Trina Paulus

It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers — Trina Paulus

We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb. — Trina Paulus

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. — Trina Paulus

We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough. — Trina Paulus

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time. — Trina Paulus

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle. — Trina Paulus

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! — Trina Paulus

Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.
For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.
'Imagine, I didn't even know I could do this. That's some encouragement that i'mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons - maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too. — Trina Paulus

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom. — Trina Paulus

"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. — Trina Paulus