Like A Butterfly Quotes

• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. 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

  Happiness, Happy, Butterfly

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

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Butterfly, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beauty, Beautiful, Self Esteem

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• In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

  Jerry Spinelli

  Butterfly, Mind, Cactus

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Home, Butterfly, Perfect

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Children, Butterfly

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• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  Anna Pavlova

  Love, Children, Butterfly

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• I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Self Confidence, Vanity

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2010

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• Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Brain

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• You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

  Mike Markkula

  Butterfly, Metamorphosis

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• I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

  Si Robertson

  Butterfly, Dynasty, Fleas

  Si Robertson (2014). “Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Fighting, Greatness

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2011

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• Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Butterfly, Gentle

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Memories, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Butterfly, Feet

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• You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Butterfly, Eye

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• Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Butterfly, Childhood, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.23, Macmillan

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• And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

  Ian Fleming

  Butterfly, Games, Finding Yourself

  IAN FLEMING (1954). “LIVE AND LET DIE”

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• We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Butterfly, Men, Boxing

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• To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

  Daniel Handler

  Butterfly, Bats, Montana

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2000.

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• Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

  Ruth Brown

  Butterfly, Positive Thinking, Life Is Like

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• I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

  Robert Wyatt

  Butterfly, Thinking, Littles

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• Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Thinking, Boxing

  Twitter post from May 30, 2011

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• The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

  Primo Levi

  Beautiful, Eye, Butterfly

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