Butterfly Wings Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. — Blaise Pascal

Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly? — Faraaz Kazi

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? — Anonymous

A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever. — Baz Black

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. — Walter Gropius

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

A butterfly has landed on a patch of milk parsley. Wings held vertically so it's not going anywhere - for the time being. Once he would have leant across and seized it. Now he'll let it fly. — Lucille Turner

"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

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. — Hilaire Belloc

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

I see you from afar - fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift — John Geddes

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate ... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished ... but I'm not going there ... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.
The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss. — Patrick Rothfuss

Isn't it funny how the moments that define our lives the most are almost always the smallest? A scattering of almost inconsequential seconds that steer our course; the proverbial butterfly wings which produce the hurricane of our lives. Single sentences, concepts, and choices-especially choices-which make or break who you are, and who you will become. — Brandon M. Herbert

I'd appreciate if you'd grow the hell up and stop walking around like the world crapped on your only roll of toilet paper. — Tahereh Mafi

don't look up to them, look into them — Andy Cope

One day you gone look up and realize that you will be forty years old still calling on 'options' and the rest of us will have husbands or potential husbands and a few children. — Nat L. Johns

You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings. — Chloe Thurlow

A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterfly flapping its wings
may turn the tide miles apart! — Somali K Chakrabarti

My religion is no way of knowing me. — Jeet Thayil

I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing about them, seeing their colors, hearing their stories ... and when humans are broken, they're like broken butterfly wings; suddenly there are so many beauties that are seen in different ways, so many thoughts and visions and possibilities that form, which couldn't form when the person wasn't broken! So it is not a very sad thing to be broken, after all! It's during the times of being broken, that you have all the opportunities to become things unforgettable! Just like the broken butterfly wing that I found, which has given me so many thoughts, in so many ways, has shown me so many words, and imaginations! But butterflies need to know, that it doesn't matter at all if the whole world saw their colors or not! But what matters is that they flew, they glided, they hovered, they saw, they felt, and they knew! And they loved the ones whom they flew with! And that is an existence worthwhile! — C. JoyBell C.